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.
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Topic Launches
Select and utilise effective ways of launching a new curriculum topic covering a range of subjects in the classroom
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Topic Tree
Demonstrate prior understanding of a new classroom topic and identify questions for further research
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Pancake Party
Investigate the meaning behind Shrove Tuesday and celebrate pancakes in different curriculum subjects and lessons
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Learning Zones
Create different learning zones around the classroom to support development across a range of curriculum areas
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Christmas Celebrations
Develop and refine skills in a range of curriculum subjects when celebrating and enjoying the festive season
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School Fireworks
Produce a mock firework display using art, music and computing skills for the whole school to enjoy in an assembly
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Classroom Music
Use different pieces and styles of music to harmonise and develop learning and organisation in the classroom
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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.
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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
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Shape Matching
Identify, describe and compare different 2D shapes by their matching individual properties including the number of sides, vertices and lines of symmetry
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Buses, Trains, Planes
Select patterned language to use when writing poems describing ways of travelling when making different journeys