Outcomes and feedback

Music lessons using The High Road from the Festival of Instrumental Music 2023

Student music resource developed by The Arts Unit in consultation with Kay Taylor

Kindergarten to Year 6 music

Creative Arts K–6 Syllabus outcomes

Early Stage 1

MUES1.1: participates in simple speech, singing, playing and moving activities, demonstrating an awareness of musical concepts.
MUES1.2: creates own rhymes, games, songs and simple compositions.
MUES1.4: listens to and responds to music.

Stage 1

MUS1.1: sings, plays and moves to a range of music, demonstrating an awareness of musical concepts.
MUS1.2: explores, creates, selects and organises sound in simple structures.
MUS1.3: uses symbol systems to represent sounds.
MUS1.4: responds to a range of music, expressing likes and dislikes and reasons for those choices.

Stage 2

MUS2.1: sings, plays and moves to a range of music, demonstrating a basic knowledge of musical concepts.
MUS2.2: improves musical phrases, organises sounds and explains reasons for choices.
MUS2.3: uses commonly understood symbols to represent own work.
MUS2.4: identifies the use of musical concepts and symbols in a range of repertoire.

Stage 3

MUS3.1: sings, plays and moves to a range of music, individually and in groups, demonstrating a knowledge of musical concepts.
MUS3.2: improvises, experiments, selects, combines and orders sound using musical concepts.
MUS3.3: notates and discusses own work and the work of others.
MUS3.4: identifies the use of musical concepts and symbols in a range of musical styles.

Cross-curricular links

English – storytelling through music stimulus. Create poetry with descriptive words and visual imagery inspired by The High Road.
Mathematics – counting, grouping numbers.
Visual arts – discuss different media, colours and textures to represent different sounds within The High Road.
Health and physical education – discuss and practise games and activities where your body performs different actions at the same time.

Look at the origins of folk dance, with particular reference to Celtic folk dance and discuss the use of dances for different celebrations, storytelling, communicating and exercising.

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Four students each proudly display their painting of a magpie sitting on, or flying above, a barbed wire fence against a brightly coloured background, from left to right: blue, purple, yellow, orange. Two boys at each end hold an illustration of a magpie.

Students from Holroyd High School show their 'King of the Streets' artworks from the Connections Showcase 2022.

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Third-party content attributions

Creative Arts K–6 Syllabus, © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2006, copied under s113P, accessed 6 April 2023.
King of the Streets image of students and their artworks courtesy of Holroyd High School, student artworks © the student artists, 2022, reproduced and communicated with permission.

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