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Art and design Computing Design and technology French Geography History Music Physical education Spanish Religion and worldviews RSE & PSHE Science Wellbeing

Lesson 1: Exploring Fingal's Cave

Learning to appraise the work of the composer Felix Mendelssohn.

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Learning objective

To appraise the work of a classical composer (Felix Mendelssohn).

Success criteria

I can give my

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National curriculum

Music

Pupils should be taught to:

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Cross-curricular links

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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 children can recall: That varying effects can be created using only your voice, for example by changing the pitch, dynamic or tempo of the sounds made. That simple pictures can be used to represent the structure (organisation) of music. That human voices have their own individual…

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

Should use the words and phrases written on the flipchart; could be paired with a more confident partner.

Pupils working at greater depth

Could be challenged to identify the sounds of different instruments and comment on the effects of these sounds; could be challenged to use figurative language in their descriptive phrases.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: engaging in discussion about the sounds of

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Vocabulary definitions

depict

To represent something using music

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In this unit

Assessment - Music Y6: Dynamics, pitch and texture

Lesson 1: Exploring Fingal's Cave

Lesson 2: Making waves: Pitch and dynamics

Lesson 3: Making waves: Texture

Lesson 4: Group compositions

Lesson 5: We are waves

Originally created by:

Sarah Frecknall

Music specialist

Sarah Frecknall is a specialist music teacher, currently working in a primary school teaching music from Nursery to Year 6. Sarah started her teaching career as a Year 3 class teacher, and her music career as a professional jazz singer, before combining the…

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