Music Teaching Resources

Discover some schemes of work, lesson plans, classroom worksheets and interactive activities to develop skills in music for Key Stage One covering musical styles of famous composers, using percussion instruments to create sounds, exploring duration and pitch and performing rhythm patterns

  • City Life

    City Life

    Practise describing, composing and playing different sounds using high and low pitches to represent vehicles and locations as part of a city location

  • Farm Sounds

    Farm Sounds

    Select and practise different ways of playing a range of percussion instruments to represent some of the sounds that could be heard on a farm

  • Gustav Holst

    Gustav Holst

    Investigate the style and structure of different compositions by a famous musician and create sounds to represent a particular place or landscape

  • Runaway Train

    Runaway Train

    Practise composing and playing different sounds and rhythm patterns to represent the movement of a train using long and short durations

  • Contractions Word Sums

    Contractions Word Sums

    Practise building and contracting groups of different words using apostrophes to replace the omitted letters in each word pair

  • Fraction Halves

    Fraction Halves

    Identify and record fractions that are halves of different shapes, quantities and numbers using concrete equipment and diagrams to model calculations

  • Weather Postcards

    Weather Postcards

    Read and write recounts to use on postcards reporting the weather experienced on different family holidays

  • Kitchen Masses

    Kitchen Masses

    Identify and record how to measure, calculate and compare the masses of different things used in a kitchen working with units in grams and kilograms