Lesson 2: The Snow Queen

Focusing on the story of The Snow Queen, children analyse how music can convey different moods or aspects of the narrative.

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Before the lesson

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Learning objective

To listen to and analyse a film musical version of a traditional story

National curriculum

‘Pupils should be taught to:

listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded
music’

See National curriculum - Music key stages 1 to 2

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: May benefit from being paired with a more confident talk partner.

Pupils working at greater depth: Should use musical vocabulary to describe what they hear, such as the interrelated dimensions of music (dynamics, pitch, tempo, timbre, structure, texture).

Wrapping up

Glossary

Assessing pupils' progress and understanding

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