Gustav Holst

This music scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to investigate the style and structure of different compositions by a famous musician and create sounds to represent a particular place or landscape. The class can practise playing percussion instruments for matching sounds of a planet in the Solar System.

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

Lesson One : World Music

Listen and respond to different musical styles from around the world that can represent cultures from ma range of countries and locations

Lesson Two : Holst’s Music

Explore the life and work of a famous music composer and learn how he composed pieces of music to represent different planets in space

Lesson Three : Soft and Loud Sounds

Select and sort a range of different percussion instruments into matching groups to compare their sounds

Lesson Four : Painting Music

Create and perform short pieces of music to match the themes and ideas expressed in a painting by a famous artist

Lesson Five : Planet Sounds

Select and create short pieces of music to represent one of the planets in the Solar System to reflect musical compositions by Gustav Holst

Lesson Six : Planet Performance

Compose and perform short pieces of music to represent one of the planets to match the musical style of the composer Gustav Holst

  • Number Doubles

    Number Doubles

    Model and record how to double different numbers to twenty using concrete equipment and pictorial diagrams to support calculations

  • Zoo Animal Doubles

    Zoo Animal Doubles

    Practise doubling different numbers of animals that might be seen at a zoo recorded in words and digits to ten using diagrams and number lines to model each product

  • Doubles Facts

    Doubles Facts

    Identify, match and record the doubles of different numbers to ten using concrete equipment and repeated addition to support each multiplication number calculation

  • Tower Doubles

    Tower Doubles

    Practise counting and doubling different numbers of cubes that have been used to make a range of towers to five, ten and fifteen