Music: Performance & Composition
Music is made, not just heard. This topic covers performing, composing, and beginning to read and use staff notation.
Resources for this topic
- KS2 Music: Singing — Quick Burst
- KS2 Music: Singing — Deep Revision
- KS2 Music: Playing Instruments — Quick Burst
- KS2 Music: Playing Instruments — Deep Revision
- KS2 Music: Musical Notation — Quick Burst
- KS2 Music: Musical Notation — Deep Revision
- KS2 Music: Improvising & Composing — Quick Burst
- KS2 Music: Improvising & Composing — Deep Revision
- Ensemble Performance Vocabulary Stage
- Performance ensemble Vocabulary And Facts Colouring Page
- Performance ensemble Colour And Observe Colouring Page
- Singing Explorer KS2
- Playing Instruments KS2
- Improvising & Composing KS2
- Musical Notation Detective KS2
- Performance ensemble Vocabulary And Facts Colouring Page
- Performance ensemble Colour And Observe Colouring Page
- Performance ensemble Activity Challenge Colouring Page
- Music — Full Mock Quiz Game
- Composing & performing — Speed Round
- Instruments & timbre — Speed Round
- Notation — Speed Round
- Composing & performing — Quiz Game
- Instruments & timbre — Quiz Game
- Notation — Quiz Game
- KS2 Music (Years 3–6) — Gated Series — Module 7: Consolidation Test (timed)
- KS2 Music — Module 6: Composing & performing
- KS2 Music — Module 4: Instruments & timbre
- KS2 Music — Module 3: Notation
- KS2 Music (Years 3-6) — Gated Series — Module 7: Consolidation Test (timed)
- KS2 Music — Module 6: Composing, listening & appraising
- KS2 Music — Module 5: Singing & performing
- KS2 Music — Module 4: Instruments & families
- KS2 Music — Module 3: Pitch, melody & notation
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