Learning objective
- To identify the basic key features of staff notation
National curriculum
Pupils should be taught to:
- Use and understand staff and other notations
- Develop an understanding of the history of music
- Appreciate and understand a range of high quality (live) and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians
- Play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts (using their voices and) playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression
Differentiation
Pupils needing extra support: Should use the vocabulary box (word bank) on the quiz sheet in the Activity: Staff notation quiz – with word bank version to help complete the labelling task. Answers to the ‘complete the sentences’ task could be rehearsed with a partner.
Pupils working at greater depth: Can be challenged to complete the empty bars on the quiz sheet with rhythms that add up to four (assuming that they are at greater depth because they already know how to read music).
