Music Wider Curriculum Whole School Exposure

An incredible collection of slides to expose children to a wider range of musical genres without taking additional time in class timetables. These can be used in classes and assemblies to compliment your music teaching.

Aims:
Expose children to different styles, periods and composers
Help children to formulate their own taste and opinions about music
Cover full breadth of Listening side of Model Music Curriculum (a particular focus)
Teach active listening (a transferable skill)
Support their music lesson learning

Suggested Structure
Day 1: Expose children to key piece of music and/or associated pieces in the same style. Have on when children are coming in in morning, from break and lunch, during handwashing etc., end of day/tidy up time and relaxation time (if appropriate).
Day 2: First responses. What do you think of the music? Do you like it? How does it make you feel/what does it make you think or remind you of? It’s important to stress that it doesn’t matter if children like or don’t like a song or a piece of music, but they should think about the reasons why they do or don’t.
Day 3: Listen out for elements of music (prompts on next slides) and discuss/take responses.
Day 4/5: Related music - listen to other pieces of music in a similar style or from a similar period. Take responses/compare and contrast, discuss the elements of music in each.

Guidance on what to do/what to listen out for for KS1 and 2

45 slides with links for every week of the school year