Music

Topics Year 2/3
This unit is part of Invaders and Settlers: Anglo-Saxons Art and Culture

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Objectives

History

Understand that many different peoples have settled in Britain since the start of the Common Era and have helped shape the nation.
Understand connections between cultural and social history.

Science

Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it.
Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it.

Music

Improvise and compose music for a range of purposes.
Play musical instruments.
Develop an understanding of the history of music

Lesson Planning

The children will learn about music in Anglo-Saxon society and prepare instruments for their feast.

Teaching Outcomes:

To understand the importance of oral storytelling in Anglo-Saxon society.
To identify the types of musical instruments that were played in Anglo-Saxon times and create some simple musical instruments with a range of notes.

Children will:

Understand the importance of music in Anglo-Saxon society.
Make simple musical instruments and explain how to change the pitch and volume of the notes produced.

Planning

Provided Resources

Extracts from ‘Beowulf’
Information on Anglo-Saxon musicians
Pictures of musicians from manuscripts
The Story of Caedmon
Caedmon’s Hymn
Instructions for making a whistle
Instructions for making a harp

Unit Resources

You Will Need

Large sturdy plastic straws
Cardboard boxes
Elastic bands
Something to draw around

Weblinks

Pictures and demonstrations of replica Anglo-Saxon instruments from richarddenning.co.uk
The story of Caedmon from real-whitby.co.uk
The story of and information on Lady Godiva from bbc.co.uk