Learning objective

  • To listen to and analyse an orchestral version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

Success criteria

  • I know that an orchestra is a group

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National curriculum

Music

Pupils should be taught to:

  • Listen

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Before starting this unit, you might want to check the children can recall that: An instrument or rhythm pattern can represent a character in a story. Sounds can help tell a story. Tempo can be used to represent mood or help tell a story. ‘Tuned’ instruments play more than one pitch of notes.  

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support: 

Should use the Knowledge organiser to help identify and recall instruments and their orchestral families; could have written descriptors that help identify certain instruments or orchestral families.

Pupils working at greater depth: 

Should be challenged to explain how they grouped their instrument flashcards during the Attention grabber activity; could identify similarities and differences between instruments from each orchestral family; could consider and justify which orchestral family the piano (percussion and strings) and saxophone (woodwind) might belong to.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: making plausible descriptions of the music

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Vocabulary definitions

  • orchestra

    A large group of instruments that play together.

  • instrument

    An object used to make musical sounds.

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