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Year 7 Musical Contexts Resources

Year 7 Elements Focus

Each unit in Musical Contexts focuses on one of more of the Elements of Music - Rhythm, Pitch, Texture, Timbre & Dynamics, Melody & Harmony and Structure and Form.  The following overview of Year 7 units shows the elements covered and may assist long-term planning through the key stage and between key stages 2 and 3.

Bumper 10 lesson unit!

Bumper 10 lesson unit!

After many requests from subscribers, I’ve put together a Year 7 Music Baseline Assessment Listening Test which can be used to assess the musical knowledge and understanding of new year 7’s at the start of term.  The test can be easily administered in a one hour music lesson and comes complete with an audio file which contains all the instructions, example questions and musical extracts.  The test covers areas such as pitch, rhythm, melody, the elements of music, notation, world music and musical instruments.  There’s also space for pupils to record their achievements in music, both in junior school and beyond and to set any targets they’d like to achieve during the year(s) ahead.  There’s supporting guidance notes and a mark scheme for teachers and the test can be customised and edited if required, being available in both .pdf and .doc formats.  The audio file is available in a choice of two formats - an “automated” recording and an actual human!  The choice is yours!!

Year 7 Music Baseline Assessment Listening Test

All of the Key Stage 3 Year 7 units above have been updated to include the new Key Stage 3 National Curriculum for Music Programmes of Study (effective from September 2014) on Lesson Plans (and in Lesson Bundle Zip Files) and Schemes of Work.  Musical Contexts has retained the “National Curriculum Level Descriptors” as a way or monitoring and measuring pupils’ Learning Outcomes in both the Schemes of Work, Lesson Plans and on various associated resources such as the “My Learning” plenary activities which occur at the end of each unit. 

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