Leeham’s song is about his holiday to Bulgaria to see his family. Useful as a stimulus for poetry, writing 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) Develop a backing track using Dance E jay or a similar programme. Run in slide mode to hear sound.

Illustrated with numerous patterns and designs this song would fit with quite a few topics Web link to original source material where mp3s can be downloaded free.

Alex from year6 recorded a ball bouncing and inserted this sound bite to create a piece of music about his favorite sport, basket ball. He imported the sample into dance e jay. The music was then imported into a video of a basket ball player he respected. The result is in the download. This is a good example of how dance e jay can work with imported sound files

Conducting shapes. Put notes on the down beats ( or wherever you want to )

Worksheet with part of the melody notated so that you can look at the rhythm patterns and a frame in which to draw their response..Web link to 'William Tell'

A graded skills grid to refer to when engaged in the difficult process of planning music via the topic approach

The video contains edited highlights of the past 3 Olympic ceremonies.Key stage one children could learn what a ceremony is and discover the themes used since 2000. Key stage 2 children can look further into how a mood is created using music and movement or see the lesson plan for designing an Olympic event.The video can be used as a stimuli for movement, poetry, history or dance. II have reduced the size so that you can preview the video by sound if you are not able to use You-tube at school. Note , this video 's quality is poor. and is much better on YouTube.

Useful as a stimulus for poetry, writing 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) View in slide mode to hear sounds.

Photos of the keyboard and the general layout of tone and style buttons, A suggested activity follows. Poster to remind pupils of procedure included

My arrangement of the tune for keyboard players in the key of G with more taxing left hand chords

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.

In the keys of C and G C F C The fi-rst No-well the an-gel did say F C F C Was to cer-tain poor shep-herds in fields as they lay

A first look at texture in music. Using flags as a stimuli, children build up layers of sound.

Watch and dance as you copy the traditional dances of Ghana

Leandra’s song captures the time just before you go to sleep. It is useful as stimuli for personal writing, poetry or, song writing; Children love the work of their peers Method -Brainstormed ideas, Chose most relevant words and then find words which rhyme with them. Take the first sentence as a blueprint for subsequent lines (syllables) Develop a backing track using Dance E jay Run in slide mode to hear music

Ellie and Chloe wrote this song about the things they do when they spend time with each other. Useful as a stimulus for poetry about friendship. . Children love the work of their peers .Method -Brainstorm ideas, Chose most relevant words and then find words which rhyme with them.Choose favorite sentence. Count syllables and use that as template for future lines.

I made this chart because I could never remember the different pitches of the instruments in our primary orchestra. After a while, I found that the pupils were using it and they began to work our their own pitch.

A selection of guitar chords for the music room

certificate to show appreciation for keyboard players hard work over the year. There are smaller sized certificates for a term's work

Two simple pieces for keyboards whereby one instrument echoes the other. It could be played with other tuned instruments, There are revision activities on the sheet.