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

  • Maths Measurement Assessment

    Maths Measurement Assessment

    Assess abilities in estimating, measuring and comparing a range of different measurements for length, mass and capacity

  • Family Life

    Family Life

    Investigate and reflect on some of the special events and experiences that might happen in the life of a family

  • Final Sounds Word Guess

    Final Sounds Word Guess

    Practise playing some guessing and matching games to identify the spelling and meaning of words with different final sounds

  • Building Reports

    Building Reports

    Explore how to collect facts and information to work with when composing and presenting non-chronological reports about buildings that can be found in the local area