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

  • Sea Sounds

    Sea Sounds

    Compose and perform a range of musical compositions to reflect movements of sea waves and animals that live on a beach and in the sea

  • Ship Sounds

    Ship Sounds

    Select, compose and play some of the different sounds using high and low pitches that can be made by ships and boats when at sea and in harbours

  • Family Fireworks

    Family Fireworks

    Select special vocabulary for sights and sounds to use when composing poems describing different fireworks used by families on Bonfire Night

  • Labelling Bicycles

    Labelling Bicycles

    Develop and refine word processing skills when labelling and organising different parts and equipment that can be used when riding a bicycle

  • Garden Sculpture

    Garden Sculpture

    Select and use different materials to mould and shape sculptures representing a range of artefacts that might be used in a family garden location

  • Witch’s Cauldron

    Witch’s Cauldron

    Select and write sets of instructions that a witch can follow when making a range of potions for casting different spells