This Music video supports teachers in delivering a lesson on composing and notating simple four-beat rhythms. It demonstrates how to model the process of creating rhythmic patterns using crotchets, paired quavers, minims and crotchet rests, while helping children understand how different note values combine to make a complete rhythm.

The video highlights effective teaching strategies for counting beats aloud, checking that rhythms total four beats before writing them down, and modelling accurate rhythmic notation. It also emphasises the importance of drawing note symbols clearly so that they can be read and performed successfully.

Through practical modelling and classroom guidance, teachers are supported in helping pupils compose, notate and perform their own rhythmic patterns with increasing accuracy and confidence. The video also demonstrates how partner performances can be used to reinforce learning and provide opportunities for formative assessment.

This video is part of Kapow Primary’s Music videos, which support teachers in developing confidence and subject knowledge when teaching rhythm and musical notation.

• Music, Year 3, Reading rhythms: Patterns and layers.
• Music, Year 3, Reading rhythms: Patterns and layers, Lesson 4, Writing rhythms.