Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe different ways of playing percussion instruments to produce a range sounds and a worksheet to select and follow a sequence of shapes when playing a musical composition representing life on a farm.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to use a range of symbols to create a score for a musical composition representing sounds heard on a farm.

This lesson is part of a music scheme of work to get the children to 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. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.