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Stimulus for Song Writing
In this y9 lesson the teacher uses questioning and clear prompts to help scaffold and collate ideas for a composition...
Authentic Song Writing 1
In this Year 9 lesson the class are working in groups to write a song from the stimulus 'Orange'.
Authentic Song Writing 2
In this y9 lesson the class are working in groups to write a song from the stimulus 'Orange'.
Peer Learning Y9
After working in groups, this Year 9 group return mid lesson to explain the reasoning behind their musical choices.
Choice and Musicality
In this lesson the teacher offers the children a opportunity to suggest their own musical interpretation for performa...
Assessing a Creative Process
The current lead Ofsted HMI for Music, Robin Hammerton writes: "Firstly, pupils’ progress in creating and understandi...
Scaffolding Composition
The periodic direction from the class teacher helps to scaffold this composition lesson so that the class are focused...
Behaviour Management
Music, as a subject based in sound, requires teachers to have strategies for managing behaviour including starting/st...
Whiteboards: Assessment for Learning
In this y8 classroom music lesson, the teacher encourages the class to map out ideas for arranging the song "Stand by...
Simultaneous Learning
It is often difficult to separate out the component parts of musical learning.
Restriction for Freedom
In this Y8 'arranging' lesson, the class teacher offers an 'arranger’s notepad' as a tool to help the groups structur...
Developing Breathing Creatively
In this group flute lesson, the teacher uses a prop to develop the breathing.
Rhythmic Variation
In this group flute lesson, the girls explore some rhythmic variation to their piece.
Listening & Feedback 1
Listening to student compositions is, in itself, a critical skill for teachers to develop.
Listening & Feedback 2
Listening to student compositions is, in itself, a critical skill for teachers to develop.
Differentiation by Outcome
Composition and creativity can lead to varying outcomes within the same task.
Performing rhythmic motifs: next steps
The teacher is to develop musical understanding based on one song.
Peter & The Wolf. Creating Characters
Inspired by the music, children create chants for each character.
Peter & The Wolf. Feedback: The Characters
Children's groups feedback to class on chants they have created.
Peter & The Wolf. Performing chants.
Children, conducted by the teacher, perform chants as a whole class.