KS1 Topic: Changes within Living Memory Block G: Music

Investigate how our experience of music has changed over the last 50 years. Look into changes in our musical tastes, in the different styles of music and how we experience these inside and outside our homes.

Block G:Music
[6 sessions] / Main outcome of topic: HistoryandMusic
Other outcomes: EnglishandArt
By the end of this block you will have achieved the following outcomes: /
  • Understand changes that have occurred since 1945; Know where musical events fit on a chronological timeline.
  • Identify changes within living memory; Identify similarities and differences in ways of life in different periods.
  • Learn about changes to the way of life of people since 1945.
  • Learn about the changes in one aspect (dance) of British life since 1945.
  • Understand how personal memories can be used to find out about the past.
  • To identify links and connections between different aspects of British life since 1945.
  • Listen to, evaluate and review music across a range of historical periods, including 1950s and 1960s; Use voices expressively and creatively by singing songs.
  • Use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking change and rhymes; listen with concentration to a range of high-quality live and recorded music.
  • Identify the pulse in pieces of music; join in together.
  • Listen carefully and develop aural memory.
  • Know what is meant by pulse or steady beat.
  • Know how to combine pulse and rhythm.
  • Know how to create rhythmic patterns based on words and phrases.
  • Use pulse and rhythm to create an accompaniment for a chant or song.
  • Control instruments and sing with others.
  • Collect visual and other information to help develop ideas, apply experience of materials and processes, including drawing, developing control of tools and techniques.
  • Compare ideas, methods and approaches in their own and others' work.
  • Explore and develop ideas.
  • Create short simple texts that combine words with images; Find and use new and interesting words and phrases.
  • Speak with clarity and use appropriate intonation when reading and reciting texts.

Session 1
History andMusic
Granny & Grandpa’s Music: Sing-a-long
Learn about some of the differences in how your grandparents would have experienced music and listen to some popular songs of the time. / Children will
  • Recognise changes in living memory relevant to the lesson and order events and ask and answer relevant questions about post-war life in the1940s/50s/60s.
  • Know that times were very different for grandparents; be able to give examples of how things have changed.
  • Have listened to a range of music and use voices expressively and creatively by singing songs.
  • Know examples of songs and music of the period (Post-war – 1950s and 1960s).
  • Listen attentively and express opinions about music listened to.

Session 2
History, MusicandArt
Granny & Grandpa’s Music: 60s Poster
Consolidate your understanding of Granny & Grandpa’s music by looking at some popular styles of the time and create a poster reflecting the tastes of the time. / Children will
  • Know that their grandparents listened to a different style of music.
  • Know that the art and images related to music had a different style from today.
  • Create interesting designs based on images from album sleeves and pictures from the time.
  • Use colour and lettering creatively and expressively in the style of that period.

Session 3
History andMusic
Mum and Dad’s music: dance to the beat
Learn about the differences between your grandparents’ and parents’ experience of music and how this would have differed to today’s experience. Listen to some popular songs of the time. / Children will
  • Identify the pulse and join in with the beat; rehearse prescribed dance moves.
  • Accompany music by dancing to the pulse or rhythm.
  • Answer specific questions about their topic area.
  • Place changes accurately on a time-line.

Session 4
History, Music, ArtandEnglish
Mum and Dad’s music: design a disco poster
Consolidate your understanding of music your parents may have enjoyed by looking at some popular styles of the time and create a poster reflecting the style of disco! / Children will
  • Place the poster in the correct decade on the time line.
  • Recall (recognise) songs; identify well-defined musical features
  • Say what they think about the images; identify what is most effective in their own and others' work and suggest improvements.
  • Organise/combine shapes, colours, patterns, textures, using mixed media.
  • Write single words and phrases and write with spaces between words accurately.

Session 5
HistoryandMusic
Music today: What do we like?
Compare how music has changed over the decades to some popular music of today. Explore how we experience music differently today. / Children will
  • Understand that our music time line continues until the present day.
  • Accompany a chant or song by clapping or playing the pulse or rhythm of the words.
  • Recall and perform rhythmic patterns to a steady pulse.

Session 6
History, MusicandEnglish
Presentation
Consolidate the learning from this block by inviting outside visitors into the classroom and sharing your knowledge of the changes in music! / Children will
  • Place the object in the correct decade on the time line.
  • Identify some similarities within one decade and some differences between now and then.
  • Use their voices confidently.
  • Sing with awareness of other performers.
  • Respond physically when performing, composing and appraising music.
  • Accompany a chant or song by clapping or playing the pulse or rhythm.

Resources

Session 1

Provided:Timeline: 1939 – 2014; Music: How have things changed? presentation; Song words for Yellow Submarine and the Rock around the Clock chorus.

You will need: If possible have an old-fashioned wireless or gramophone to show the children.

Session 2

Provided:Images of record sleeves / posters.

You will need:Paints, felt pens or coloured pencils; Selection of coloured paper, glue, scissors; A3 paper.

Session 3

Provided:Images of LPs, CDs, tapes; Time-line (from last lesson).

You will need:White-board & pens; Space in which to dance.

Session 4

Provided:Images of Abba album covers; Words: ‘Abba’ & ‘Dancing Queen’ to copy/cut out; Images of disco dancers; Time-line from previous session.

You will need:Large squares of coloured paper; Coloured paper for cutting up; ‘Sparkly’ bits to add; Scissors; Glue; Pens; Pencils.

Session 5

Provided: Football rap.

You will need: Percussion instruments (e.g. drums, woodblocks, clave sticks, coconuts, tambours, rain-sticks).

Session 6

Provided:Completed time-line (from previous sessions); Poster labels.

You will need:Posters made in sessions 2 & 4.

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