Key Learning Objectives To add tuned and untuned percussion parts to accompany the medley of traditional songs already learnt. Starter activity: The whole class to clap to the heartbeat and engage with the Vocal warm ups (1 1,2,1) – found on SingUp. Main activity: Revisit the four Pentatonic Partner songs, adding instruments to accompany the […]
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Year 2, Unit 3: Songs of the City – Lesson 1 & 2
Key Learning Objectives: To sing accurately in unison. To sing with actions in time with the music. To sing with dynamic contrast. To describe music using a music vocabulary. Starter activity: Listening and response exercise using the track, ‘Boom chicka boom’- resource provided on SingUp. Main activity: Listen to the track, ‘Jump Jim Joe’ focussing on accurately learning the melody, […]
Year 5, Unit 3: Singing – Lesson 3
Key Learning Objective: To identify, sing and perform intervals/leaps in a melody. Starter activity: Choose an activity from the Pitch and Vocal starter bank. Main activity: Listening and response activity based on the track, ‘Young Rider’. Learn the song, focusing on the shape of the melodic line, ensuring the different intervals are pitched correctly. Plenary: Give the children […]
Year 5, Unit 3: Singing – Lesson 1
Key Learning Objectives: To understand that music moves. between high and low pitches. To identify melodic shape To maintain a musical line in a 2 part song – melody/ostinato. Starter activity: Choose an activity from the Pitch and Vocal starter bank, questioning the pupil’s understanding of pitch so far. Main activity: Listening and response activity based on […]
Year 5, Unit 1: Air – Lesson 6
Key Learning Objective: To perform, evaluate and celebrate the composition created this term. Starter activity: Vocal warm up with aircraft sounds, going to the extremes of high and low register, working on dynamic contrasts. Then perform ‘Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines’ as a class and record. Main activity: Performing and evaluation, each group to rehearse and […]
Year 5, Unit 1: Air – Lesson 2
Key Learning Objective: To organise pitch to create the effect of flight. Starter activity: Listening and response exercise, based on the work ‘Flight of the Bumblebee’ by Rimsky Korsakov written in 1899-1900. Focus on the movement of the pitch and the shape it creates. Record this activity for evidence. Main activities: To be recorded. Activity One: […]
Year 4, Unit 1: Water – Lesson 6
Key Learning Objective: To maintain an independent line within a two part song. Additional Learning Objective: To sing in tune with expression and perform rhythmically simple parts that use a limited range of notes. Starter activity: Listen to a number of capstan and hauling sea shanties, asking the children to identify the main features of […]
Year 3, Unit 3: Pitch – Lesson 6
Key Learning Objectives: To begin to understand that notes can move by step to form a scale. To further develop an understanding of intervals, exploring fifths. To listen carefully and perform partner songs as part of an ensemble Starter activity: Select an activity from the Pitch Starter Bank. Main activity: Introduce the degrees of a scale […]
Year 3, Unit 3: Pitch – Lesson 5
Key Learning Objectives: To further develop aural skills and understanding of how a melody moves. To work in small groups to ‘notate’ patterns of notes, using objects to mirror both rise and fall in pitch. Starter activity: Select an activity from the Pitch Starter Bank. Main activity: Representing note patterns: Listen to ‘Bristol Pitches’ and pitch pattern the […]
Year 3, Unit 3: Pitch – Lesson 4
Key Learning Objectives: To listen, explore and begin to learn ‘Fureem’. To recap that the distance between two notes is called an interval and use arms to mirror a rise and fall in pitch correctly. To understand how a triad is formed (notes built above one another to form chords). Starter activity: Select an activity […]