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A flexible set of child-centred creative music resources designed for older Primary children,
delivered through your whiteboard.
Movies explain all activities and concepts, allowing you to learn with your class.
Interactive activities allow your class to practice creative skills on-screen, before composing and performing in small groups with handouts and classroom instruments.
Save and print online traffic-light assessments, and download handouts and curricular planning sheets.
Easy to use for ALL staff, even those who feel unconfident with music.
‘Topics and Cross-Curricular Activities’ course features:
Compose raps and songs about who you are, where you live, and what you like to do- with adaptable worksheets to allow you to compose raps about any topic.
Use creative writing modules to explore rhyme schemes, lyric writing, and to develop lyrics about different topics.
Learn songs about the environment (Beautiful World), and explore emotional literacy by writing new lyrics to songs about feeling down (The Blues), and missing someone who has left your life (I Carry You In My Heart). Perform the backing to songs using classroom percussion instruments.
Use smart handouts with pick-boxes, word banks and rhyme zones to support lyric writing for children with a range of abilities.
Follow stand-alone creative music topic modules on individual topics- with loads of cross-curricular links.
Current topic modules include Make Xmas different, the Olympics, and new topic modules will be released throughout the session- modules in development include Percussion Grooves from Around The World, Elections/Referundum, Scots Language and Burns, World War II etc.
Complete self-reflective diaries on the creative process and performance.
Doing some preparation will help you deliver a better class, adapt activities to your themes and topics, and will make you feel more relaxed, especially if teaching ABC music is new for you.
But we know teachers are busy, so all the resources are written in simple language, with a clear layout.
Lesson plans are laid out like a script- so if you need to, you can take a lesson plan, and say to children- “Let’s see what we have to do today!” and run the activity by reading it out step-by-step.
Everything you need should be in most classrooms. You need:
A set of standard classroom instruments- tuned and untuned percussion- eg wood blocks, tambourines, shakers/maracas, chime bars, drums/tambours, xylophones/glockenspiels and beaters etc.
A computer with an internet connection.
An interactive whiteboard with connected speakers.
