A 7-slide tour through the six musical concepts every KS1 child should know, illustrated with examples from everyday sounds and three real public-domain composers whose work is widely used in UK primary schools: Saint-Saëns (Carnival of the Animals), Holst (The Planets), and Vivaldi (The Four Seasons).
The pack does not include audio — but the last slide tells children (and their grown-ups) where to find free recordings of all the pieces named: BBC Ten Pieces, BBC Bitesize, and YouTube with adult supervision.
A ten-question quiz testing the KS1 music vocabulary and the three named composers. Half the questions test concept understanding (which is high vs low, which has a steady pulse); half test recall of the music vocabulary and composer-piece pairings.
Best taken after the e-learning lesson and worksheet.
Music Explorer is a five-track Years 1–2 music activity book mapped to the DfE National Curriculum for Key Stage 1 Music. Children feel and clap the steady pulse, explore rhythmic word-patterns, tell high sounds from low and meet instrument families, discover dynamics (loud/quiet) and tempo (fast/slow), and finish by singing a song and listening with concentration at home. Auto-marked questions are checked instantly on screen, or the whole book can be printed with a full answer key. Includes teacher, parent and pupil notes and is fully SEND-friendly with high-contrast and large-text modes.
A short guide for parents. The single biggest predictor of a child’s primary-school music confidence is whether they hear and join in singing at home — even badly. This guide explains why, and gives four practical ideas using only the things you already have: your voice, the radio, a kitchen, and BBC Ten Pieces (free).
A planning companion for KS1 Music. Maps the pack to the four NC statutory requirements and the Model Music Curriculum musicianship strand (pulse, rhythm, pitch), gives a broader suggested listening list with public-domain composers, explains the Kodály syllable method used throughout the pack, and lays out a 6-lesson scheme.
Particularly useful is the honest section on what the pack CAN’T do — Learnaroo Hub doesn’t play audio — and which DfE-recommended free resources fill that gap (BBC Ten Pieces, BBC Bitesize, Sing Up).
