Christmas Worksheets Key Stage 3 Music

This is a whole lot of Christmas fun for your music students! Depending upon ability and age group, there is enough in this pack to keep students occupied and engaged for 1 or 2 whole 1-hour lessons, making it perfect for the last week before Christmas! It’s aimed at Year 6 to 8, but it can work with any students who have a basic musical knowledge, provided they can indulge in the Christmas Eve storyline below!

Students have to ‘Save Christmas’ because Santa is having a nightmare! It begins with Santa having overslept, and Rudolf can’t wake him without the magic word, which is written in treble staff music notation and all jumbled up. Students have to solve the mystery! No sooner have they woken Santa, he can’t start the sleigh – another magic word has to be revealed, this time by rearranging bass staff notation! Finally, he leaves the North Pole, but he’s lost the map for his special route over Europe, so students need the help of famous European composers to calculate the correct route. Next stop is Africa, but Santa gets stuck in a chimney in Ghana and a special code is needed to get into the magic glitter box that Rudolf can sprinkle on him to free him! The trouble is the code is written in notation and students need to convert it to numbers to reveal the code. Next stop is Asia, and disaster strikes for Santa right at the end of the leg when all the presents fall off the sleigh, landing on some tiny island in the Indian Ocean! A group of mathematical and musical pandas have written out some musical sums which reveal the GPS co-ordinates of the island. Students need to locate it! After recovering the presents, a sandstorm over Australia threatens to bring the sleigh down, but with the help of some friendly Australian animals and some musical instruments, students can reveal the password which speeds up the reindeer, avoiding the storm. On the final leg of the journey, weather threatens Christmas again when a dense fog covers The Americas. With the help of some flags and musical styles, students can safely navigate Santa across the continents and truly ‘Save Christmas’.

It is a whole lot of fun and students love it – and with full answers and basic guidance provided, you’ll love it too! In the process of completing these activities, students get to use their skills in, and knowledge of, treble and bass staff notation, note durations, instruments, composers, and musical styles – PLUS there’s elements of numeracy, literacy, and geography for some great blended learning, this festive period.

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