A simple cover lesson for music when you're on a course or a poorly person! Only resources required are A4 plain paper and colouring pencils. Everybody's happy!

Helpful for teaching major scales and improving fingering on the keyboard.

On my travels as a KS2 and KS3 music teacher I have developed these posters to help children recognise what level they are working at. I encourage children to refer to them as often as possible and they went down well with OFSTED recently. I hope someone else finds them helpful! :0)

I have developed this sheet for use with Year 5 and 6 children but it could be used easily in Year 7. I have based it on the target sheets that children use in their exercise books in literacy and numeracy. Each 'I can&' sentence is taken from the Attainment Targets for Level 3 and 4 in Music.

Helpful for teaching basic chord patterns and tonic and dominant. Also good for practising fingering on the keyboard.

This is a powerpoint to be played whilst introducing the new artist of the month. You will need to choose a Monkees song to with it. I ask children to listen to the song and then afterwards to share with a partner what they thought about the song and why. Their partner then shares their opinion with the class. OFSTED loved this as a starter. For the rest of the month I just choose another song to listen to and compare and contrast. the kids love it and often go away and research or prepare a powerpoint for me! :0)

Following the Model Music Curriculum in 2021, I have prepared a resource which allows you to track children’s listening over years 3-6 and has links to the corresponding YouTube video for the majority of suggested listening tracks for children of that age. The idea is that the document follows them up at the end of each year and ensures a wide breadth and depth of listening, rather than covering the same pieces again and again. Teachers can just follow the link and then add the date into the end column to show it has been listened to. Some classes in my school have gone a step further and added their own star rating at the end too. Completely up to you, of course. I’ve done my best with regards to choosing appropriate videos and where possible, I have opted for performances where you can actually see instruments being played. The links are only as good for as long as they stay on YouTube, so I apologise if they disappear. Also, you will need to have them ready loaded as you don’t want any inappropriate videos to pop up! I hope this helps. I find it a great way to monitor listening in Music and has allowed lots of extra listening to occur during other subjects as well as quiet moments in the class.