In this thoroughly rich and exciting skills/knowledge based topic, students will journey to learn everything they need to succeed in this component of the OCR Listening Exam. The SOW is structured in a logical and cohesive form to ensure students progress. Each lesson contains a range of knowledge re-call activities, mini listening tasks and assessments, as well as practical activities to embed through performance. Each of the eight lessons can be taught as a 1-2 hour session, depending on how long you wish to stretch out the practical activities. For example, a practical activity looking at the concept of ‘Rhythmic Displacement’ could just cover basic Syncopation but could be extended to include addressing ‘Free Time’ and ‘Rubato’ etc … This is a highly researched SOW which has taken much time to create. With colourful and high quality presentations, worksheets, homework tasks and over 60 audio extracts all included, you will not need to produce any additional resources for this topic. All slides can be edited, and I would encourage any teacher to look carefully through the resources before teaching each lesson ensuring that any changes/differentiations unique to your class have been made. INSTRUCTIONS This resource pack has been created using the FREE ‘Google Suite’. Once you have downloaded the pack, you must extract the zipped folder. If working on a Mac, just double click and this will happen automatically. If working on Windows, right-click and press ‘Extract-All’. You will then UPLOAD the entire folder to a FREE Google Drive account and open the files using Slides and Docs. Powerpoint versions are also included, but the formatting is changed and presentation quality is slightly reduced. Alternatively, in the folder titled ‘Lesson Presentations’ there is a PDF Document with clickable links to all the resources’. For any support, please contact me through TES and I will be happy to help.

Thank you for finding your way to this resource! Through a range of listening, writing, composition and practical activities combined into each lesson, students will learn everything they need to know for the ‘fusions’ component of the Edexcel GCSE course. Each of the five lessons can be taught as a 1-2 hour session, depending on how long you wish to stretch out the practical activities. For example, a practical activity looking at the concept of ‘Ostinato’ could just cover basic polyrhythms but could be extended to include syncopation, cross-rhythms and more! With worksheets, homework tasks and a final assessment all included, you will not need to produce any additional resources for this topic, apart from ensuring students have access to the anthology scores. All slides can be edited, and I would encourage any teacher to look carefully through the resources before teaching each lesson ensuring that any changes/differentiations unique to your class have been made. Please note, this resource pack has been created using the FREE ‘Google Suite for Education’. Once you have downloaded the pack, you will need to UPLOAD it to a Google Drive account and open the files using Slides and Docs.

In this thoroughly rich and exciting skills/knowledge based topic, it will be revealed to students where much of the music we enjoy listening to today has evolved from. This is not a topic about the history of music. It is a topic focussed on learning to use and understand interesting musical devices through the context of a music history timeline. Students will learn to talk about, write about, compose and perform a wide range of musical devices through a variety of listening, composing and performing activities. This is an ideal topic to be teaching at the beginning of any GCSE Music Course as it will provide students with a solid skill foundation on which to build upon in subsequent branch off topics. Each of the seven lessons can be taught as a 1-2 hour session, depending on how long you wish to stretch out the practical activities. For example, a practical activity looking at the concept of ‘Rhythmic Displacement’ could just cover basic Syncopation but could be extended to include addressing ‘Free Time’ and ‘Rubato’ etc … This is a highly researched SOW. With worksheets, homework tasks and a final assessment all included, you will not need to produce any additional resources for this topic. All slides can be edited, and I would encourage any teacher to look carefully through the resources before teaching each lesson ensuring that any changes/differentiations unique to your class have been made. Please note, this resource pack has been created using the FREE ‘Google Suite for Education’. Once you have downloaded the pack, you will need to UPLOAD it to a Google Drive account and open the files using Slides and Docs.

Hello, Thank you for finding your way to this resource and my page. This SOW is dedicated to teaching ‘Learning Aim - A’ of Unit 1 (Music Theory) on the BTEC Level 3 Music Performance Course’. Each lesson is intended to last 1 hour and the order of lessons follows the suggested 1 year delivery plan as suggested by Pearson, with assessment at the end. This Unit can be taught in Year 12, or Year 13. Each lesson includes a glossy presentation, full of easy to understand teaching guides, videos and illustrations as well as ‘hidden teaching notes’, suggested practical activities and homework tasks to embed learning. Everything you need to develop students knowledge understanding is here. This resource has been created using Google Slides. To fully utilise this resource, please run the presentations in Google Slides (free) by re-uploading the downloaded files to Google Drive (free) and opening from there. Videos for the presentations can be accessed via a link included in your download. This link will take you to a Google Drive folder containing the videos. Simply add this folder to your own Google Drive. Instructions included. Resources for Learning Aims ‘B’, ‘C’ and ‘D’ will be available soon.

Hello, Thank you for finding your way to this resource and my page. This SOW is dedicated to teaching ‘Learning Aim - A’ of Unit 2 (Professional Practice in the Music Industry) on the BTEC Level 3 Music Performance Course’. Each lesson is intended to last 1 hour and the order of lessons follows the suggested 1 year delivery plan as suggested by Pearson, with assessment at the end. This Unit can be taught in Year 12, or Year 13. Each lesson includes a glossy presentation, full of easy to understand teaching guides, videos and illustrations as well as ‘hidden teaching notes’, suggested practical activities and homework tasks to embed learning. Everything you need to develop students knowledge & understanding is here. This resource has been created using Google Slides. To fully utilise this resource, please run the presentations in Google Slides (free) by re-uploading the downloaded files to Google Drive (free) and opening from there. Resources for Learning Aims ‘B’, ‘C’ and ‘D’ will be available soon.

Hello, Thank you for finding your way to this resource and my page. This SOW is dedicated to teaching ‘Learning Aim - B’ of Unit 2 (Professional Practice in the Music Industry) on the BTEC Level 3 Music Performance Course’. Most lessons are intended to last 1 hour and the order of lessons follows the suggested 1 year delivery plan as suggested by Pearson, with assessment at the end. This Unit can be taught in Year 12, or Year 13. Please Note: This particular pack contains four lesson presentations (less than in Learning Aim A) because Lesson 4 contains a sizeable ‘business plan’ project which will take students several lessons to complete. It is intended that students will work on this idependently, but the teacher will provide regular feedback or invite a guest speaker. For this reason, this resource is priced slightly lower. Each lesson includes a glossy presentation, full of easy to understand teaching guides, videos and illustrations as well as ‘hidden teaching notes’, suggested practical activities and homework tasks to embed learning. Everything you need to develop students knowledge & understanding is here. This resource has been created using Google Slides. To fully utilise this resource, please run the presentations in Google Slides (free) by re-uploading the downloaded files to Google Drive (free) and opening from there. Resources for Learning Aims ‘C’ and ‘D’ will be available soon.