Good to use as a plenary or fun christmas activity. The emoji’s are meant to represent the titles of famous christmas songs. Worksheet and answer sheet attached.

An introduction lesson with small tasks to get to grips with Batman Returns music.

Here are a selection of ice breakers and form time activities for when you have time to fill! These are things I have tried and the students have enjoyed over the years. I hope they help! Some tasks are for getting to know a new form, some are for new term, some are just quizzes and things to pass the time!

Edexcel A-Level Music (2016) Kate Bush, Hounds of Love intro lesson

This is an introduction to Club Dance music - good as a standalone lesson or as the start of a unit to introduce garageband. Also works well to introduce club dance at KS3 in preparation for set works at GCSE level. I’ve used this for year 8, but could be used anywhere in KS3, and even early Ks4. Garageband elements could be adapted for your own software. Youtube links embedded and in the notes on the powerpoint.

A fun end of term quiz that runs itself with some links to musical elements and current popular music - no other resources required. Round 1 - emoji songs Round 2 - Singers real names Round 3 - Musical keyword anagram Round 4 - Musical notation sums Round 5 - Musical keyword picture clue Round 6 - celebrity face mask! Optional 6th round needing a powerpoint slide but could print this off as an additional page to the quiz.

End of term quiz 2021 - these are the ‘general’ rounds from my end of term music quiz. Great for use in form/tutor time Emoji song Singers original name Celebrity face mask

I created this resource as I had a weak cohort who didn’t have the confidence to talk about music, even though I knew they could! It goes through some example 3 mark questions based on both Edexcel set works and the Q8 unfamiliar piece. I give them some techniques based on MR D TIGHTS (DR SMITH to some people) as I use this as a prompt to help them answer higher mark questions. There are some whole class discussion activities (I haven’t embedded any youtube clips for the set works as I assume you will have your own and I use the CD), and then an activity at the end for individuals or pairs (this will need access to youtube or tracks downloaded in advance).