**Kung Hey Fat Choi! Celebrate Chinese New Year in style with our colourful and creative music activities for the Primary Classroom. Includes everything you need to cover your curriculum requirements. Includes: LISTENING GLYPH - Listen and identify basic elements using colour keys. DRAW THE MUSIC - Listen to a piece of traditional Chinese music, and interpret using lines,colours and shapes. RHYTHM POCKETS - Identify  and sort simple stick notation represented by words and pictures **** PICTURE RHYTHM CARDS*** - Learn to read simple rhythmic phrases with picture symbols words and stick notation. PITCH PICS - Introduce the element of pitch with these visual representations  using HIGH and LOW picture scores, leading onto HIGH MIDDLE LOW. Students can respond to each score by showing HIGH MIDDLE LOW with hands/body/voice. They can also learn to identify a score by listening to the score being played on tuned percussion. PITCH LINES - Further devlop the concept of pitch by composing,following and playing a more developed picture pic score using tuned percussion. **COMPOSING WITH COLOUR **- Create an untuned percussion piece using colours to represent chosen sounds. COMPOSING WITH POETRY - Compose a tuned percussion version of a short poem, using the rhythms of thelines and  the pentatonic scale - a traditional scale used in Chinese music. PLAYALONG SONG - Learn a traditional Chinese song and perform a rhythmic accompaniment, following a graphic score. MUSICAL MATHS - 3 fun problem-solving sheets using word rhythms/beats  to solve picture sums** CHINESE INSTRUMENT POSTER - a colourful poster showing a selection of traditional Chinese instruments, which can be enlarged for display.

Stuck for a song? This pack of 20 traditional and fun Welsh songs are ideal for your St. David’s Day celebrations! There are plenty for all ages from 5 to 11, with easy to follow Welsh and English lyrics for Welsh learners and speakers, plus easy piano scores. Backing tracks provided are ideal if you don’t have a pianist. Are you always looking for the National Anthem for your assembly? We have included it here for free! Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus! Includes: Aderyn Melyn Ar Lan Y Mor Ashgrove Awn Am Dro Bing Bong Be Bing Bong Be (easy version Bore Da Is Good Morning Deg Deren Bach Franz O Wlad Awstria Gee Ceffyl Bach Hen Fenyw Fach Cydweli Heno Heno Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau Lawr As Lan Y More Mae Heddiw Dydd Gwyl Dewi Mi Welais Jac Y Do Pen Ysgwyddau Coesau Traed Robin Ddiog Si Hei Lwli Sospan Fach

Play along with this delightful Christmas melody – composed specially for you! Recorder Notes G,A,B,C Each piece includes Backing Tracks – Track 1 with Recorder part, Track 2 instrumental only The score uses Alpha Notes (each note has its note name written inside it to support reading of the music) A handy fingering chart completes each pack. Includes: Alpha Note Score Backing Tracks Fingering Chart 2 pages

Get your students creating and performing their own rhythmic scores using word rhythms and simple notation. A great introduction to composing! Ideal for your Autumn Topic too! Includes: Blank scores Picture rhythm cards Rhythmic notation cards Teachers Notes 5 Pages

Explore the Musical Element of STRUCTURE with this simple graphic score activity. Listen to Handel’s famous Music For The Royal Fireworks and fill in the graph as you hear the instruments…ideal for your Fireworks Topic! Includes: Worksheet and answers Audio File 2 pages

WATCH THIS SPACE is a collection of music ideas & activities specially selected and created for the socially-distanced classroom Learn about the musical elements with this fun wordsearch. Ideal for homework. music centres and your early finishers! * Includes:* Wordsearch worksheet Solution Sheet

*VIDEO ACTIVE! is a collection of video-based activities – ideal for the socially-distanced classroom. * VIDEO ACTIVE! PITCH PICS-HIGH LOW is a set of 8 videos exploring the first basic concept of PITCH using simple coloured circles. INCLUDES: Teachers Notes 8 PITCH PICS-HIGH LOW videos Teaching Guide video Flashcards How To Set Up Chime Bars

If your New Year’s Resolution is to get more composing happening in your music class, then this is for you! Explore Rhythm and Pitch with our Picture Rhythm & Pitch Cards and scores. Then compose simple melodic and rhythmic pieces using tuned percussion. Finally, perform your pieces for all to enjoy. Happy New Year! *Includes: Picture Rhythm Cards & Scores Picture Rhythm & Pitch Scores Drone & Pulse Scores Blank Scores Rhythm Flashcards Teacher’s Notes

Active Listening activities help students to focus their listening and develop their responses to music through visual (non-verbal) interpretation and with reference to the musical elements. Have some spooky fun with the great music of SAINT SAENS and his dancing skeletons!  Listen to the music and colour the picture. …And when you’re done, use our HALLOWEEN PLAYLIST to find more wonderful music to listen to and enjoy! * Includes:* Listening Glyph Halloween Playlist Teacher’s Notes

Explore the link between syllables in words and rhythm in music with this fun syllable sorting activity. Use to develop and reinforce topic vocabulary, while learning to read and recognise rhythmic notation. Includes: Word Rhythms Activity Sheet Word Rhythms Answer Key

Clap the words, count the beats and solve the simple sums! Musical Maths explores the relationship between syllables and rhythm. These simple but effective activities can also be used to develop pre-skills in algebra and music notation at the same time! Ideal for: Homework Music centres Early finishers Includes: Addition worksheet Subtraction worksheet Multiplication worksheet 3 Pages

Graphic scores are a great way to get your students composing. Sounds are represented by colours and shapes, and are organised into simple sequences which can then be performed on percussion instruments. Includes: Blank scores Colour and shape cards Teacher’s Notes 5 pages

Get your students creating and performing their own rhythmic scores using word rhythms and simple notation. A great introduction to composing! Ideal for your Halloween Topic! * Includes:* Blank scores Picture rhythm cards Rhythmic notation cards Teachers Notes 5 Pages

Introduce the musical element of PITCH with this colourful visual resource. An ideal way to develop an understanding of the concept of HIGH and LOW sound in music,PITCH PICS are a great introduction to reading music. Includes: Graded Pitch Pics Cards Teacher’s Notes 11 pages

Develop understanding of pitch with these easy-to-follow graphic scores - can be used with chimebars and other tuned and untuned percussion to perform and compose simple 3-note melodies. Includes: Graded Pitch Lines Cards Teacher’s Notes 9 pages

Active Listening activities help students to focus their listening and develop their responses to music through visual (non-verbal) interpretation and with reference to the musical elements. Learn about the families of the orchestra with this great listening activity, using Handel’s famous Music For The Royal Fireworks. Listen out for the strings, brass and percussion sections and hold your cards up! Also ideal for exploring structure. Includes: Listening Cards manipulatives Teacher’s Notes Audio File Cover 2 Pages

Get your younger students singing! 4 easy and fun songs for your fireworks theme, all set to well-known tunes. Includes ideas for percussion accompaniments. Includes: 4 lyric sheets with percussion ideas Cover 5 pages

This simple 3-note arrangement for recorders uses a well-known melody from The New World Symphony by Anton Dvorak. Easy to follow score features ALPHA notation - the note letters are displayed on the note - so everyone can follow. The fingering chart is a handy reference guide for you and your students. And the backing tracks feature simple accompaniments with and without the recorder parts, and at slow and fast speeds for practice and performance. The pack also includes  simple scores for piano accompaniment - ideal for learners and teachers alike! And when you’re done, learn more about the composer with a comprehension activity. For beginners of all ages. Includes: Alpha score Recorder Fingering reference charts Audio tracks Piano scores (with and without recorder part) Comprehension  7 pages/2 audio files

Play along with this beautiful Christmas lullaby Recorder Notes F#,G,A,B Each piece includes Backing Tracks – Track 1 with Recorder part, Track 2 instrumental only The score uses Alpha Notes (each note has its note name written inside it to support reading of the music) A handy fingering chart completes each pack. Includes: Alpha Note Score Backing Tracks Fingering Chart 2 pages

Play along with this traditional Christmas Song Recorder Notes A & B Each piece includes Backing Tracks – Track 1 with Recorder part, Track 2 instrumental only The score uses Alpha Notes (each note has its note name written inside it to support reading of the music) A handy fingering chart completes each pack. Includes: Alpha Note Score Backing Tracks Fingering Chart 2 pages