Taking KS2 - Inter-related dimensions of music Outdoors

Exploring dynamics and tempo

LO: To explore how dynamics and tempo can affect mood.

National Curriculum Objectives covered:

To play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression.
To improvise and compose music using the inter-related dimensions of music.

Deepen your children’s understanding of tempo and dynamics of music by challenging them to use these dimensions to create a musical piece. This outdoor lesson invites children to collaborate while experimenting with dynamics and tempo to create a certain mood.

Exploring the pitch of musical instruments

LO: To explore how the size of a musical instrument can affect the pitch.

National Curriculum Objectives covered:

To listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory.
To understand and explore how music is created through the inter-related dimensions of music.

Combine simple everyday kitchen utensils with music in this fun and engaging lesson. Your children will be tasked with exploring the pitch of untuned instruments and link this with their understanding of sound. This is an easy to resource and creative outdoor lesson!

Composing using structure and texture

LO: To consider structure and texture when composing.

National Curriculum Objectives covered:

To play and perform in ensemble contexts, playing musical instruments.
To improvise and compose music using the inter-related dimensions of music.
To listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory.

In this exciting outdoor lesson, children work collaboratively to consider structure and texture when composing a piece of music based on a rainforest story. This lesson combines active movement, natural loose parts and musical understanding to portray the different noises in a rainforest.

Reading basic stick notation

LO: To read basic music notation.

National Curriculum Objectives covered:

To use and understand staff and other musical notations.

During this outdoor lesson, your children will develop their understanding of basic stick and dot notation as a way to create and read music. This lesson provides children with the opportunity to bring all their knowledge of the inter-related dimensions of music together to perform a musical piece.

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KS2 - Inter-related dimensions of music

Exploring dynamics and tempo

LO: To explore how dynamics and tempo can affect mood.

National Curriculum Objectives covered:

Exploring the pitch of musical instruments

LO: To explore how the size of a musical instrument can affect the pitch.

National Curriculum Objectives covered:

Composing using structure and texture

LO: To consider structure and texture when composing.

National Curriculum Objectives covered:

Reading basic stick notation

LO: To read basic music notation.

National Curriculum Objectives covered:

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