A super fun, well presented, teacher-lead music quiz with 8 rounds (to fill an hour lesson).
Answer sheet is included, as well as the PowerPoint presentation and a link to the GoogleDrive.
Rounds include:
Santa Speedrun
Christmas Covers
Seasonal Selfies
8-Bit Blizzard
Snowy Scenes
Yule or False
Mash-Up Mayhem
Sing It Santa!
** audio amended 13/07
Interactive teacher-lead PowerPoint. Teachers click to play audio tracks / change slide etc. Comes with visual PPT with all audio files embedded, answer sheet and link to GoogleDrive for alternative download.
10 Rounds:
1 - Intros
2 - Before They Were Famous
3 - Connections
4 - Reverse
5 - Tv Montages
6 - Picture Round
7 - 8-Bit
8 - Festival Headliners
9 - 2026 Hits
10 - Finale Megamix
12 rounds of Christmas Listening and fun!
1 - Guess the intro
2 - Complete the lyric
3 - Songs about Santa
4 - Songs in reverse
5 - Orchestral Christmas
6 - Name the Christmas Artist
7 - Snow songs
8 - Wrong Genre Covers
9 - Carols
11 - Christmas Films
12 - Christmas songs of the 2020s
This is the 5th Year of the calendar and still at its simplest level the purpose of this calendar is to offer a wide-ranging selection of music: different styles, genres, origins, artists, historical periods and so on.
As part of an interesting and robust music curriculum, children need to hear and experience music and musical styles and artists that they may not otherwise have the opportunity to hear.
The idea was to create a calendar of a song a day.
195 school days… 195 songs.
These songs could be used in whatever way the user thinks best – on entry to the classroom in the morning, as assembly music, as a calming session after breaktimes of lunchtimes, or as an introduction to a music lesson.
Each week includes a Key Vocabulary list and musical features to identify, note and discuss.
This resource includes this year’s calendar (2026-27) ONLY.
Full week-to-View Calendar
YouTube Search Links for all songs
This year I am asking a fee of £3.50, for a complete resource that will last you all year. I am proud of the product and feel that for the extensive hours spent creating it £3.50 is well worth it!
Double sided worksheet and teacher slides for a music cover lesson on film music. Suitable for both Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4.
The lesson includes six short activities: a starter, listening task, composition task (without instruments), a film technique question, reading activity and reflection. The lesson has been designed to be delivered without instruments or computers, though the lesson is easily adaptable to include a practical element should you wish. Prior teaching on the elements of music is recommended.
This is the perfect music lesson for a written music lesson or cover lesson with a non-specialist.
Please note: This resource includes both printable materials and audio files (MP3 format).
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GCSE Music revision guide covering all elements of music. Explore the musical definitions of key terms, before applying them into exam style questions. Suitable for any exam board, however written with Eduqas in mind.
This resource is any music students’ perfect companion. Exam technique is half the battle when it comes to sitting a GCSE in music, so whether the students need to revise for mock exams or the real deal in Year 11, this revision guide will help solidify elements of music knowledge and secure understanding of how to apply key terms to exam scenarios.
It is especially valuable to students that may require additional intervention, as the guide takes things back to basics before increasing the difficulty. Set it as homework, hand it out at parents evenings, use it in intervention/catch-up sessions or even use it to complement initial elements lessons at the start of the course. The guide is so versatile and a must for GCSE exam success!
Please note: This resource requires YouTube access for listening questions. Simply search the title indicated by the question to access the appropriate audio
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**A music quiz to round off all the greatest hits from 2025-26. **The quiz is split into 6 rounds with 10 questions in each (answers at the end):
General Music Knowledge - questions about the music industry from the last 12 months
Games Music - guess the video game from the audio
TV - guess the TV series from the opening titles
Sound Design - guess the sound effect from the audio
Film - guess the film soundtrack
Biggest Hits - guess the biggest hits in the UK from the last year
This resource comes with the PowerPoint (with all audio tracks cut and faded) and a Quiz Sheet for students to fill out their answers.* Please note that the PowerPoint will not work on Google Slides, only on Microsoft PowerPoint.*
This quiz should probably last around an hour but you could also split it up across lessons to shorten it or play extracts again to make it longer. Suitable for Years 7-13.
Double sided worksheet and teacher slides for a music cover lesson on musical theatre. Suitable for both Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4.
The lesson includes six short activities: a starter, listening task, composition task (without instruments), a song type question, reading activity and reflection. The lesson has been designed to be delivered without instruments or computers and students may need additional paper for the creative composition task. Prior teaching on the elements of music is recommended.
This is the perfect music lesson for a written music lesson or cover lesson with a non-specialist.
Please note: This resource includes both printable materials and audio files (MP3 format).
Enjoyed this resource? Your feedback helps to improve and create new materials. Thank you for taking the time to leave a review!
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GCSE MUSIC – KEY MUSICAL ELEMENTS
This 36-page PPT is a great way to kick off the GCSE course, providing an accessible introduction to (or refresher of!) key musical elements:
Pulse
Metre (including regular and irregular)
Rhythm (including syncopation, off-beat rhythms, dotted rhythms and triplets)
Chords (including triads and inversions)
Melody-writing
Basic arranging for ensemble
It is expected that most students will have encountered many of these at Key Stage 3, and so whilst this PPT can act as an introduction with clear explanations, it can also act as a useful refresher, with the exercises very much aimed at Key Stage 4.
Students will need access to keyboard or guitars, and notation software or manuscript paper.
Update (19.09.24): I have added answers to the PPT, so that it could be used by a non-specialist teacher, or even set as cover / homework.
Please have a look at my other GCSE Music resources.
Thank you!
It’s time to celebrate summer with some of the hottest hits from the 25/26 year, even featuring World Cup and Minion rounds! Switch those brains on for one final time and sing your heart out to this foot-tapping quiz. Enjoy 8 rounds of trending summer hits - the perfect end of term treat!
Round 1: 2026 Hits
Round 2: Songs in Minionese!
Round 3: Emoji Decoders
Round 4: Cheesy BBQ Classics
Round 5: Misheard Lyrics
Round 6: World Cup Mayhem - Finish the Lyric
Round 7: Global Hits
Round 8: Poolside Remix
Please note: This resource includes MP3 audio tracks embedded into the PowerPoint file.
100 Revision Activities for Eduqas GCSE Music
100 knowledge-based revision tasks for the Eduqas GCSE Music Appraising exam. Topics include the elements of music, keywords and definitions, music theory, set works, and music styles.
Saturday 8th March 2025 marks ‘100 Days To Go’ until the 2025 Eduqas GCSE Music Appraising exam. This revision pack provides a task for each day in the run up to the exam. Designed to take no longer than 15 minutes to complete, each task also includes an additional challenge.
Not restricted to ‘100 Days’, these revision activities make a perfect addition to lessons in the run up to the Appraising exam: Do Now activities, revision lessons, cover work, home learning tasks, independent revision, and so on.
An interactive document, page 2 provides a menu linked to each revision activity. Clicking the task number on each page then returns you to the home page. Why not choose a number at random to really test your students’ knowledge!
An answer pack is also included.
If you like this product, be sure to also consider these revision packs:
50 Badinerie Revision Tasks: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/eduqas-gcse-music-badinerie-set-work-revision-pack-13226305
50 Africa Revision Tasks: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/eduqas-gcse-music-africa-set-work-revision-pack-13237250
If you have any questions or queries about this resource, please email kbmusicresources@gmail.com
Link to KBMusicResources TES shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/kbmusicresources
A music classroom version of the classic game Snakes and ladders!
3 banks of questions:
Treble clef questions = Easier questions
Bass clef questions = Medium questions
Alto clef questions = Hard questions!
Very engaging especially at the back end of year 11 when you want them to revise but they are sick!
Played this today with my lot and the average game lasted around 30 minutes with one team of lads still playing their first game when the bell went!
All you need to do it print off the board (I did it in A3), print the cards on both sides flipping on the short side (so it aligns properly) and print out the instruction sheet!
I forgot all about counters so we made do with elastic coloured bands and whiteboard pen lids!
I also bought a 10-pack of dice from the works for a quid!
Music notes divide time in half, or quarters etc. and using movement avoids the need to understand fractions first. This is one way of introducing notation by working out how many 'beats&' each word takes, e.g.:
Twin-kle, twin-kle, lit-tle star
walk walk walk walk walk walk stride
Bee bee bee bee bee bee worm
cr cr cr cr cr cr m
(cr=crotchet, m=minim)
INTERCURRICULA LINKS:
Movement - self-regulation, balance
Numeracy - experiencing fractions, time
Literacy - experiencing syllables
Creativity - tools to &';write' own songs
I have managed to recreate the popular card game with questions on the two set works (Badinerie - Blue and Africa- Red) alongside Elements of Music questions - Green and the other areas of study - Yellow. There are also the usual action cards from UNO like pick up 2, reverse play, miss a go, change the colour, pick up 4 and shuffle all cards!
Instructions are on a separate sheet for you to print out and give to the group of kids or for you to just have handy and supervise with the answers!
Hopefully a fun way to revise along with a bit of competition - which I find usually helps!
You will need to print the pages ON BOTH SIDES and make sure they are FLIPPED ON THE SHORT EDGE otherwise they might not line up properly with the back!
A bundle of all six composers for Eduqas including key information, listening resources, discussions of composer style and listening questions.
Please note that any mention of scores for performance are not included due to copyright.
UPDATE: There will be a new version of this resource published for 2026-27 in August 2026
This is the 4th Year of the calendar and still at its simplest level the purpose of this calendar is to offer a wide-ranging selection of music: different styles, genres, origins, artists, historical periods and so on.
As part of an interesting and robust music curriculum, children need to hear and experience music and musical styles and artists that they may not otherwise have the opportunity to hear. The idea was to create a calendar of a song a day.
190 school days… 190 songs. (+2 for those with different school schudeules)
These songs could be used in whatever way the user thinks best – on entry to the classroom in the morning, as assembly music, as a calming session after breaktimes of lunchtimes, or as an introduction to a music lesson.
This resource includes this year’s calendar ONLY.
Full week-to-View Calendar
YouTube Playlist of all songs
This year I am asking a fee of £3.00, for a complete resource that will last you all year. I am proud of the product and feel that for the extensive hours spent creating it £3.00 is well worth it!
Ideal for Year 8 class - activities include:
Origins/basic info/musical featuers quiz on Samba
Example Youtube video of what Samba looks/sounds like
What Samba instruments look like
Learning basic rhythms and some specific Samba rhythms
Create Samba composition using an edited Samba structure
Plenary: name as many instruments from the pictures
This has been edited from a resource that's already on TES so it&'s not an original resource.
Any feedback would be great, thanks!
To be used in the event of staff absence. Easy to print off as a booklet then apply a binder.
Please leave a comment if you have used this resource as it helps me to evaluate/modify.