Model Music Curriculum / Year 5 / Unit 5: How Does Music Shape Our Way Of Life?

Step 6 – Brief Lesson Plan – Assessment Checkpoint

This brief lesson plan outlines the structure and learning focus for each activity. Use it to write general notes and for
continuous assessment. Please read the full lesson plan for more in depth musical detail including knowledge and skills.

Musicianship Options
There are two options: Understanding Music and Improvise Together. These are both optional activities today. Use either
as a warm-up or start your lesson with the Listen and Respond activity.

Understanding Music - Year 5 Unit 5

Steady beat
Metre 3/4
Rhythmic and melodic patterns
Recognising and/or reading simple notation and tonic sol-fa
Recognising the tonal centre is D major and the D major scale is used
Dotted minims, minims, crotchets, quavers and semiquavers

Improvise Together - Year 5 Units 5,6

Children will practise improvising using the notes:
C, D, E
C, D, E, G, A
C, D, E, F, G, A, B

Listening

Listen and Respond - The Lark Ascending

Talk about the song together
Explore its musical style through the style indicators of the music and its
performers
Embed a deeper understanding of the musical concepts related to the song
Find an understanding and/or connection to the song or music

Singing Options
Below is a list of all the songs from this unit:

Learn to Sing the Song - Look Into The Night

Learn to sing the song as part of an ensemble/choir
Follow a leader/conductor
Understand the meaning of the song
Demonstrate and maintain correct posture and breath control
Listen to each other and sing in tune together
 Learn to Sing the Song - Breathe
Learn to sing the song as part of an ensemble/choir
Follow a leader/conductor
Understand the meaning of the song
Demonstrate and maintain correct posture and breath control
Listen to each other and sing in tune together

Learn to Sing the Song - Keeping Time

Learn to sing the song as part of an ensemble/choir
Follow a leader/conductor
Understand the meaning of the song
Demonstrate and maintain correct posture and breath control
Listen to each other and sing in tune together

Playing Options
Below is a list of all the Play Your Instruments with the Song activities from this unit:

Play Your Instruments with the Song - Look Into The Night
To play and perform an instrumental part as part of the song they are learning
to sing by ear or from standard notation.

The Glockenspiel parts use the following notes:

Part 4: D
Part 3: F, G, A, C, D
Part 2: F, G, A, C, D
Part 1: F, G, A, C, D

The Recorder parts use the following notes:

Part 4: F, G, A
Part 3: F, G, A, C
Part 2: F, G, A, C
Part 1: F, G, A, C, D

Play Your Instruments with the Song - Breathe

To play and perform an instrumental part as part of the song they are learning
to sing by ear or from standard notation.

The Glockenspiel parts use the following notes:

Part 4: C
Part 3: F, G, A, B, C
Part 2: C, E, F, G, A, B
Part 1: C, D, E, F, G, A, B

The Recorder parts use the following notes:

Part 4: F, G, A, B
Part 3: F, G, A, B, C
Part 2: C, E, F, G, A, B
Part 1: C, D, E, F, G, A, B

Composing & Improvising Options

Revisit the Improvising and Composing activities connected to the song you are preparing for performance.
 Improvise with the Song - Breathe
Children improvise using three or five notes over the backing track of the song
provided.

Notes:
C, D, E
C, D, E, G, A

Compose with the Song - Look Into The Night

Children compose an eight-bar melody using three or five notes over the
backing track. The melody can be included as part of the final performance. The
children can create using their imaginations.

Notes to use:
D, E, F
D, E, F, G, A
D, E, F, G, A, B♭, C
Create and explain a simple melody with a musical shape using three, five or
seven notes
Identify melodic intervals (a melody that leaps) and melodic steps (a melody
that moves to the next note)
Keep a record of the composition to play it again
Structure musical ideas (eg using echo or question and answer phrases) to
create music that has a beginning, middle and end. Pupils should compose in
response to different stimuli, eg stories, verse, images (paintings and
photographs) and musical sources
Combine known rhythmic notation with letter names to create rising and
falling phrases using just three notes (do, re and mi)
Compose song accompaniments on untuned percussion using known
rhythms and note values

Music Notepad
To create a simple melody using the Music Notepad whilst also developing
creativity and being able to draw on wider influences from songs played and
learnt
To strengthen the learning that has taken place in a unit by composing
melodies in similar styles
Internalise a steady beat
Use the metre 4/4, 2/4 or 3/4
Notate simple rhythmic and melodic patterns including crotchets, quavers,
minims, semibreves and their rests
Key signatures can be C major, G major, F major, A minor, E minor, D minor -
the first three notes or a pentatonic scale
Add dynamics to suit your composition

Performing Options
Revise and complete a performance of your chosen song:

Perform the Song - Look Into The Night

Share and start to take responsibility for a performance of the learning that has
taken place in the lesson.

Perform the Song - Breathe

Share and start to take responsibility for a performance of the learning that has
taken place in the lesson.

Perform the Song - Keeping Time

Share and start to take responsibility for a performance of the learning that has
taken place in the lesson.

Quiz

Unit Quiz - Year 5 Unit 5

To strengthen the learning that has taken place in the lesson
To develop and broaden music theory and musical knowledge and
understanding in relation to all that has taken place in the lessons

Continuous Assessment Opportunities

Evidence
Have you recorded and
uploaded?

Notable outcomes
Musical? Social? Unexpected?
Exciting?

Notes for next lesson

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