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.

  • Topic Launches

    Topic Launches

    Select and utilise effective ways of launching a new curriculum topic covering a range of subjects in the classroom

  • Topic Tree

    Topic Tree

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

  • Pancake Party

    Pancake Party

    Investigate the meaning behind Shrove Tuesday and celebrate pancakes in different curriculum subjects and lessons

  • Learning Zones

    Learning Zones

    Create different learning zones around the classroom to support development across a range of curriculum areas

  • Christmas Celebrations

    Christmas Celebrations

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

  • 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

  • Shape Locations

    Shape Locations

    Explain and model how to record and change the co-ordinate positions of some different geometric shapes using translation and reflection movements in the first quadrant.

  • Shape Symmetry

    Shape Symmetry

    Explore, record and compare the matching lines of symmetry that can be found in a range of different geometric shapes as part of their individual properties

  • Shape Matching

    Shape Matching

    Identify, describe and compare different 2D shapes by their matching individual properties including the number of sides, vertices and lines of symmetry

  • Buses, Trains, Planes

    Buses, Trains, Planes

    Select patterned language to use when writing poems describing ways of travelling when making different journeys