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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
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Sporting Poems
Practise writing poems with patterned language and rhythm structures to describe movements and actions connected to different sports and games
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Food and Drink
Select powerful and descriptive vocabulary to use in poems describing different types of food and drink that can be enjoyed for a range of meals
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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
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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