Subject: Music

Year: 2

Set:

PGCE Primary and Early Years Lesson Plan

Date: 16 October 2015
No of pupils: 24

Week: 12

Topic: Listening to music

Learning
Objectives*:
NC, EYFS

Listen with concentration and understanding

Begin to recall sounds with increasing aural memory
Introduce children to a range of music and composers
Express thoughts and articulate their understanding

Success Criteria* in
Child Speak:

By the end of the lesson, you should be able to

I can listen to music carefully and with concentration
I can talk about how music makes me feel
I can remember bits from pieces of music I have listened to

Cross-curricular
links/
Key skills
Review of pupils
previous learning
Possible
Misconceptions
Inclusion issues
Opportunities for
ICT
Preparation/resourc
es

Literacy Traditional Tales

Children will have been listening to, and learning about,
Traditional Tales in Literacy
There is no right answer children must be reassured their
ideas are valid
Translation may be needed for EAL children to express their
thoughts clearly
Pictures of woods to show on IWB as a stimulus
Little Red Riding Hood story
Recorded piece of music
Pictures/photographs/paintings of woods to show on IWB

Risk assessment
Vocabulary

Listen, imagine, discuss, share, feelings, loud, soft, scary

Introduction/ Orientation
Context Cross-curricular link with Literacy focus on Traditional Tales.
Read first part of LRRH story until LRRH goes into wood.
Share ideas and experiences of walking in woods. What are woods like? How do they
make you feel? What might you see there?
Look at pictures/photographs/paintings of woods on IWB as a stimulus

Teaching input

Assessment for Learning

Key questions/observations

Now I am going to play you a piece of music. I would like

you to close your eyes while you are listening to it, and
imagine that you are in a wood. It could be LRRHs wood,
or a wood that you know, or an imaginary wood. It doesnt
matter.
You will need your listening ears and your thinking head.
The music wont last for very long and I will tell you when
it has finished. Try to keep your eyes closed while you
listen, as it will help you to think.
Play piece of music Arnold Bax, November Woods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWooGjw28Wg
Open your eyes. Would anyone like to tell us a little bit
more about the wood that they were thinking of when they
were listening to that piece of music?
Share ideas. Be encouraging and interested about each
offering there is no right or wrong answer.
Im going to play the piece again. This time I would like
you to think very hard about what you can see and hear in
your wood. Listen to the music to help you decide. Is the
music suggesting anything in particular?
Repeat activity and share ideas. Encourage children to
discuss their wood, but also how the music made them feel
about their wood.
Can you hear any animals or creatures in your wood?
What is the weather like? How are you feeling? Lonely?
Excited? Scared?

mmmmmmmm

Can children listen? How well

do they focus and
concentrate?
How confident and willing are
children to articulate their
ideas and thoughts on piece of
music?
Can children use the piece of
music to help them visualise a
wood?
How well do children listen to
each other?

Activities (Groups/Differentiation; Teacher/TA led;

Independent)

Assessment for Learning

You have listened very carefully to the piece of music, and

shared your ideas about your wood. Now, I would like you
to draw a picture of your wood, so that we have a really
good idea of what your wood looks like.

Can children use the piece of

music to help them represent
a wood?

Have a selection of wax crayons, pastels and pencil

crayons available as well as a selection of paper.

Key questions/observations

Does picture act as evidence

that each child can express
his/her thoughts about the
music?

Working independently, children produce a picture of their

wood. Play piece of music whilst children are working, to
remind them of music and what has been discussed.
Teacher to move around children, asking questions and
offering encouragement, but not making any comments
regarding which pictures are good.

Plenary (Refer to success criteria)

Assessment for Learning

Key questions/observations

Play music one more time, reminding children of how we

listen carefully: eyes closed, ears listening to music.
Afterwards, share words that children think of and write on
large piece of tree-shaped paper.
This will be used in next lesson as an introduction by
reading words, can children remember what the music was
like? What do children suggest when they are asked to
remember and describe a piece of music?

Observe and note words

suggested. Which children
demonstrate good vocabulary
and ability to respond to
music?

Evaluation
Lesson Evaluation
Your Teaching
Please evaluate your lesson against the Teachers Standards (you may choose to focus on all or some of the Teachers
Standards 1 to 8 depending on your lesson).
Please analyse what went well or did not go well in your lesson and why.

The impact on pupils learning

(You may wish to select target pupil(s)/ group(s) as the focus of your evaluation, which could then feed into
your formative assessment records)
Please evaluate your lesson in terms of the impact on pupils learning. You might like to consider how well the pupils:

succeeded in meeting the learning objectives

applied skills, knowledge or understanding to meet the lesson objective(s)

engaged with the lesson

used the resources available, including adult support, to improve their learning

used self/peer assessment to improve their own learning.

In evaluating the lesson, indicate how you know that your teaching has had an impact on pupils learning.

Targets for your teaching in the next/future lesson(s)