A collection of different styles o the painting of fruit.

L.O. 'Appreciating the different styles of art': 1. Short illustrated biography of Rousseau; 2. His painting with guidance as to what to look out. for; 3. 2 suggestions for their own work in the style of Rousseau.

Lesson - Study of flamenco and activities Containing 2 videos embedded song . Music map, information, activities hyperlink Uses the dance to generate their own music and dance Web-links to original sources Worksheet for comparisons

Freya and Layla wrote a song about friendship Useful as a stimulus for poetry, writing, discussion 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) Run in slide mode to hear sound.

Year 6 boys collaborate and write a song outlining how man disrespects the planet. A sound bite from a partner school’s recording in Africa is added to Dance e jay to create a global feel. This is a good example of how dance e jay can work with imported sound files Useful as a stimulus for poetry, writing or protest song writing . . Children love the work of their peers .Method -Brainstorm ideas, Chose most relevant words and then find words which rhyme with them. Develop a backing track using Dance E jay or a similar programme.

L.O To develop performance skills Video, lyrics and backing track Ugly bug ball backing track embedded and you must open PowerPoint to hear it Web-link to original source

Write your own Celtic rap as inspired by the BBC’s horrible histories. Worksheet and video Lyrics for the rap with sound bites to aid learning. Finding suitable tempo. Listed Learning objectives I have included the video as some schools are not allowed to access You Tube.The web-link is to the original source

First part of the Assembly- the children have to guess which language is used to say hello Second part -a chant from Sing up with audio guide It can be done in Assembly from scratch as it needs a leader (yourself ) and an echo- the children. Third part - A humorous poem about an early morning greeting SOUND WILL WORK WHEN THE FILE IS VIEWED IN SLIDE SHOW MODE Web-link to original source

You will recognize this beautifully evocative piece of music immediately y 'It can be used in many ways-as a self running file with embedded music, its useful to have running as the children enter the hall for Assembly. There are questions and pointers to focus the children's attention to the music.. I have cut it to 3 minutes, but the file is programmed to run on a loop. It can be used in the day to soothe and calm. Sound will only be heard in slide mode,.

This is for the non specialist primary school teacher. The video for download is to give you a gist of the lesson. If you want better quality , go to the YouTube version. The video of the Olympic Torch shows children how to make a simple but effective piece of music..There is also a worksheet . Children love to watch the video as their class mates play the music. There is a video with no sound on for this purpose. After the lesson there are teachers notes and an example of a basic soundtrack added to the video and the children's scribed music.

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.

Teach your children a wonderful dance! The men who worked in the diamond mines were forbidden to dance so. they invented a way to communicate by dancing in their boots! Let the children make up their own welly dance, The link is to the extended version of the gumboots interview which is the original source The last web-link is a contact for a visiting Gumboots dance troupe,

Images of the rainforest and-where the animals live.

Science leaf classification. Drawing school grounds Rousseau Shape colour .

A poster with clear instructions as to the writing of a newspaper report ( Viking times ) An example of a report and illustration created in Publisher.

R.E An illustrated story of the life of St Francis

What helps Hindus and Christians pray ?

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

Two examples of different pitch (singing) Paul Robson and Diana Danrau from Queen of the night. There is a suggested activity for the children to compose with instruments. They could try their voices if you like. I have edited these videos so they get to the good 'bits quickly. For some reason, the children were entranced by them ! The web addresses are for the full length versions and original sources

R.E A Christian Festival . An illustrated story of Easter