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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: Pop Art and music

Exploring the musical concept of theme and variations; discovering how rhythms can be 'translated’ onto different instruments, including body percussion, inspired by artwork from the Pop Art era.

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Learning objective

To explore the musical concept of theme and variations.

Success criteria

I can talk about theme and variations.
I can

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National curriculum

Music

Pupils should be taught to:

Improvise

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Cross-curricular links

Art and design

Pupils should be

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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 that children can recall: What is rhythm. How do different instruments sound. How can they keep the pulse using body percussion.

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

Should keep the rhythm the same throughout; should perform the rhythm using different actions for each teacup image instead of using instruments.

Pupils working at greater depth

Should work with tuned percussion instruments (if available), e.g. xylophones, glockenspiels, chime bars; could make more complex changes, such as performing the rhythm backwards.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: performing rhythms confidently either on their

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Vocabulary definitions

Pop Art

A style of art that uses bright colours and bold patterns to depict popular people or objects.
theme and variations

A musical form when the main melody is played multiple times with slight changes.

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In this unit

Assessment - Music Y6: Theme and variations

Lesson 1: Pop Art and music

Lesson 2: The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra

Lesson 3: Learning the theme

Lesson 4: Exploring rhythms

Lesson 5: Picturing Pop Art

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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