Learning objectives
- To recall and describe key features of known musical genres
National curriculum
Children should be taught to:
- Play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression
- Improvise (and compose) music for a range of purposes using the interrelated dimensions of music
- Listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory
- Use and understand staff and other musical notations
- Appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians
- Develop an understanding of the history of music
Success criteria
Cross-curricular links
Before the lesson
Download and print classroom resources
Attention grabber
Main event
Differentiation
Pupils needing extra support: Can play the Sheet music: Put your gumboots on! (tuned percussion part 2) and Sheet music: What’s the story? (tuned percussion part 2), and Sheet music: Vamos, let’s go! (tuned percussion part 1). They could use the Knowledge organisers for the units during the question sections to support them.
Pupils working at greater depth: Can play the Sheet music: Put your gumboots on! (bass line) and Sheet music: What’s the story? (bass line) and the Music: Guiro salsa rhythm clip for ‘Vamos, let’s go!’:
Music: Guiro salsa rhythm clip