Teaching Ideas for Music

Classroom teaching ideas and lesson planning advice to support busy primary school teachers in Key Stages One and Two and the Foundation Stage. Discover a fantastic range of primary resources to excite and inspire pupils on different topics and themes for music.

  • Christmas Celebrations

    Christmas Celebrations

    Develop and refine skills in a range of curriculum subjects when celebrating and enjoying the festive season

  • Topic Tree

    Topic Tree

    Demonstrate prior understanding of a new classroom topic and identify questions for further research

  • School Fireworks

    School Fireworks

    Produce a mock firework display using art, music and computing skills for the whole school to enjoy in an assembly

  • Classroom Music

    Classroom Music

    Use different pieces and styles of music to harmonise and develop learning and organisation in the classroom

  • Money Division

    Money Division

    Model and record how to divide a selection of money amounts by different numbers with quotients using remainders

  • Money Division Tens

    Money Division Tens

    Practise selecting and dividing a range of different money amounts by ten with matching remainders in the number quotients

  • Traditional Fables

    Traditional Fables

    Explore and model the events and characters that feature in traditional tales written as fables to teach the reader a moral lesson

  • The Dove and the Ant

    The Dove and the Ant

    Plan and write a story with animals as the central characters based on a fable read by the class which is used to teach the reader a moral lesson about life