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

  • Sea Animals

    Sea Animals

    Identify, describe and compare some of the different plants and animals that can be found living in a marine habitat including in the sea or on the beach

  • Number Bonds to Twenty

    Number Bonds to Twenty

    Investigate and model how to use mental calculation techniques when working with concrete objects and diagrams to identify pairs of numbers that make sums to twenty

  • Journeys Poems

    Journeys Poems

    Practise selecting powerful vocabulary words to use in poems that can describe some of the journeys made by families using different types of transport

  • Special Places Poems

    Special Places Poems

    Practise composing and presenting poems using descriptive vocabulary to illustrate some of the special places that can be found in the world