This archived Art and design scheme of work video introduces teachers to a lesson where Key stage 2 pupils create eye-catching collages using sweet wrappers.
year: Year 5
Teacher video: Painting: Packaging collage
This archived Art and design scheme of work video introduces teachers to a lesson where Key stage 2 pupils scale up a small section of their sweet wrapper collage into a large painting.
Teacher video: How artists work
This archived Art and design scheme of work video introduces teachers to a lesson where Key stage 2 pupils create imaginative artworks based on original ideas.
Teacher video: Designing spaces
This archived Art and design scheme of work video introduces teachers to a lesson inspired by contemporary designers Morag Myerscough and Luke Morgan, who transform spaces through colour, shape, and typography.
Teacher video: Changing spaces part 1
This archived Art and design scheme of work video introduces teachers to a lesson inspired by the work of contemporary designers Morag Myerscough and Luke Morgan, who transform spaces using colour, shape, and typography.
Teacher video: South Africa – minims
This Music video introduces teachers to lesson two of the South Africa unit, where pupils learn to play two key repeating patterns from the topic song, ‘Put on Your Gumboots’. The lesson focuses first on developing good tuned percussion technique, then on learning the patterns by ear, before connecting them to staff notation.
Teacher video: South Africa – Gumboot dance
This Music video introduces teachers to the final lesson of the South Africa unit, where pupils compose and perform body percussion rhythms to enhance their gumboot dance. It demonstrates how to model and check rhythmic patterns, guide pupils in creating eight-beat phrases, and explore dynamics by alternating between loud and soft playing.
Teacher video: South Africa – Semibreves
This Music video introduces teachers to lesson three of the South Africa unit, focusing on the gumboots musical tradition and learning the final ostinato to complete the song. The video demonstrates how pupils can sing and clap rhythmic patterns before transferring them onto instruments, using staff notation to support transitions between old and new ostinati.
Teacher video: South Africa – Introduction to staff notation
This Music video introduces teachers to the first lesson of the Key stage 2 instrumental scheme, which begins with the music of South Africa. The lesson sets out the essential foundations for both reading staff notation and learning tuned percussion technique, while also encouraging pupils to recognise that Western staff notation is just one of many valid ways of writing music.
