Various audio and video files put together to help children understand the pulse of music.. Movement and discussion encouraged The sound will not play in the PowerPoint unless you view it in slide mode.

Gershwin. The resources contains piece of music and PowerPoint slides with some detail about the piece. It is useful for Assembly music or to listen during the day. The music creates the right mood for concentrating and empowering. web link to video and original; source

Colour in a star on the tree when you get 3 number facts right.

Lyrics, illustrations and sound for this drinking song. Imbedded sound only operated in slide mode.

Songs and activities connected with tapping.Open PPT fully to hear the songs.Feedback appreciated as songs are original and given freely.

Watch and dance as you copy the traditional dances of Ghana

Using 'The Scream ' as a stimuli, the Power Point shows you how to make music from it and then invent a score. There are 2 examples of scores shown.

The story is split into parts. The children choose which part they would like to compose for. The story is read again with the children playing on cue.

This resource is for the piano keyboard. A series of exercises are given to help the pupil step up or step down on the stave.

What characteristics do humans and animals share?

This is an animated PowerPoint song which tells the story of a ghost orchestra whose instruments play at night. . Here is a creative opportunity to learn about timbre without really trying. Children mime when the ghost instruments play and sing the chorus in between. It is also a useful stimulus for creative writing. teaching notes at the end of slide show . Children like to pretend tp play the instrument and then sink to the bottom of the sea with the animation.

What helps Hindus and Christians pray ?

Worksheets with self explanatory activity. Children are given the rhyming words and choose the appropriate ones to make up their song. They then add a simple accompaniment choosing an instrument from the list.. There is also a resource under 'Music for the summer' which has suitable music to play. I use windows photo gallery to print out the worksheets on A4 paper

Traditions and how to keep your resolutions !

Six simple pictures in a PowerPoint or as separate posters, tell in a few words the Christmas story

A simple work sheet which has rectangles in which to draw your school now, The other rectangles are to be drawn from old records of your school. This will look very effective when completed and will have helped observational skills, Especially useful for children who find recording difficult. Looks lovely when completed - good display fodder.

Freya and Layla wrote a song about friendship Useful as a stimulus for poetry, writing, discussion or song writing, Children love the work of their peers. Method -Brainstorm ideas, Chose most relevant words and then find words which rhyme with them. Take the first sentence as a blueprint for subsequent lines (syllables) Run in slide mode to hear sound.

Edited-examples of Inuit throat singing and traditional dancing are given as examples for the children to copy and try for themselves. There are suggestions, on the video, for children to make their own Inuit dance and music

Printable classroom display poster. From As You Like It , a comedy by William Shakespeare. All the world's a stage, And all the men and women Merely players; They have their exits And their entrances, And one man in his time Plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.

A dictionary of the types of music and the genres they belong to