Lesson 1: Rhythm and structure

Pupils create rhythms and put them into an order, or structure, to tell the story of St George and the Dragon.

Before the lesson

Learning objective

  • To create a rhythm

National curriculum

‘Pupils should be taught to:

  • listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded
    music
  •  experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions
    of music’

See National curriculum - Music key stages 1 to 2

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: May benefit from using the example rhythms, practising with them, then playing them in the specified order.

Pupils working at greater depth: Can be challenged to make sure that each of their word patterns has a different rhythm so that they can get real variety in their piece.

Wrapping up

Assessing pupils' progress and understanding

Vocabulary

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