Key Learning Objective: To explore, recognise and respond to features of a piece of music from the 20th century. Starter activity: Listening and response exercise. Play the clip of ‘Birdsong’, the class will create a ‘bird orchestra’ based on one of the birdsongs from the clip. Main activity: Exploring the piece of music, ‘Oiseaux Exotiques’, written to sound […]
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Year 2, Unit 2: Chronology – Lesson 3
Key Learning Objective: Explore and creatively respond to a well-known piece of music from the Romantic Period. Starter activity: Introduction to instrument families via a virtual tour, focusing in particular on the celeste, cello, flute and bassoon. Main activity: Introduction to Romantic Period Composition, play ‘Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy’, revealing this work to be written […]
Year 2, Unit 2: Chronology – Lesson 1
Key Learning Objectives: To listen and respond to music from the Renaissance era verbally and through dance. To compare different types of music from the Renaissance era. Starter activity: Instrument recognition exercise carried out in pairs, followed by a discussion based around varying pitch and dynamic levels. Main activity: Listening exercise, delivered in a Listening Space. […]
Year 2, Unit 1: Water – Lesson 6
Key Learning Objective: To sing expressively. Additional Learning Objectives: To listen with concentration to a range of high-quality music. To appreciate how the inter-related dimensions of music ‘work together’ in a composition to create an atmosphere or effect. Starter activity: Sing and record ‘Big boats, small boats’, sung rhythmically, with good pitching of leaps and scales, expressing the […]
Year 2, Unit 1: Water – Lesson 1
Key Learning Objective: To read and perform a four bar notated rhythm. Additional Learning Objectives: To know how to handle and make sounds on several instruments. To choose sounds to represent ideas e.g.: calm stormy sea. To play quietly or loudly to represent a calm or stormy ocean. Starter activity: Full-body warm up, mimicking big wave/dainty […]
Year 1, Unit 1: Air – Lesson 2
Key Learning Objective: To tell a story using vocal sounds and body percussion. Additional Learning Objective: To perform rhythms and melodies vocally and instrumentally. Starter activity: Warm Up using the song, ‘Shake my Sillies Out’ to get all children focused. Main activity: Weather improvisation, using voices to represent different types of cloud. Plenary: Grouped activity introducing timbre, culminating […]
KS1 Lesson 4 Main 2: The Sound of an Alien Instrument
Time: 10 mins Group size: Small Groups Tag words: artefact, scrape, buzz, ring, shake, play, instrument, alien, check, explore, different, sound, timbre Place a number of different instruments in groups on the floor, ideally a range of instruments that includes a bell, a shaker, a tambourine, a chime bar, a scraper, a drum etc. Get […]
KS1 Lesson 4 Main 3: Making Alien Music
Time: 15 mins Group size: Whole Class Tag words: composing, performing, improvising, instruments, pattern, counting, timbre, play, number, remember, counting, different, sounds Explain to the class that it’s time to make our own piece of Alien Music using the instruments/artefacts found on the alien planet. Make sure each pupil has an instrument and is sat […]
KS1 Lesson 4 Plenary: Saying goodnight to the planet
Time: 5 mins Group size: Whole Class Tag words: instruments, artefacts, alien, planet, goodnight, sleep, questions, timbre It is now time for the artefacts/instruments to go to sleep. Ask the pupils to say “goodnight” to the artefacts/instruments and one at a time, carefully bring them to the front of the class to put them away. […]