ART · Week 8 · BUILD · Identity in Art · Arts Award Explore

Festival Sounds

Hear it · Feel it · Play it

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Today is a hands-on lesson — we learn by doing.

ARRIVAL TASK · do now, no help needed

Loud or soft? Sort the sounds

Tap a card, then tap where it belongs. Have a go — wrong answers are welcome here.

While you wait: sit still for ten seconds and count the sounds you can hear right now.

LEARNING OBJECTIVE

LO: To explore festival sounds and instruments and show how they make me feel.

✓ I can describe a sound: loud/soft, fast/slow, happy/calm.

✓ I can match sounds to feelings in my log.

✓ I can record or play my favourite sound.

Success criteria: By the end you will have explored the instrument set, matched sounds to feeling symbols in your log, and recorded a favourite-sound clip — and the set plays LIVE as the soundtrack to the RE showcase, so the two finales join up. This page completes your Explore log for the half-term (AQA UAS ‘Creating artwork’).

Going for Grow: layer two sounds together and name the mood you built — that is composing.

STARTER · talk task

Eyes closed — what did that sound feel like?

Eyes closed. One festival sound plays. Don’t name the instrument — catch the FEELING first. One word, or point to a feeling-symbol. Then compare with your partner: same sound, same feeling?

Sentence stems:
“It felt…”
“It made me think of…”
“My partner felt ___ — same sound!”

I DO · teacher explains

Sound is art you feel with your whole body

🔊 Describing sound

Four levers: loud/soft, fast/slow — and the feeling they build: happy, calm, excited, gentle. Two levers, one mood.

🎉 Why festivals use sound

Drums for excitement, bells for wonder, songs for together-ness — festivals of light across the world are built on sound doing feelings at scale.

🥁 The set

Today you try the instruments — drums, bells, shakers and more. Try, listen, match the sound to a feeling symbol. There is no wrong match: it’s YOUR feeling.

✨ The live finale

This isn’t practice for nothing: our sound set plays LIVE as the soundtrack to the RE showcase — the term’s two finales join up, and you’re the band.

Misconception: ~~“Music isn’t proper art — it doesn’t count for the Arts Award.”~~ The Arts Award counts ALL art forms — sound, music, dance, drama, the lot. Your sound→feeling page is exactly the evidence it wants, and it completes your Explore log today.

WE DO · together on the board

Sort the words — describing the SOUND, or naming the FEELING?

HANDS-ON · the main event

Play the set 🎶

Ground rule (60 seconds): one sound at a time when we’re listening, everyone at once when we’re playing — and ear defenders are on the side for anyone who wants the volume managed.

Station 1 · EXPLORE THE SET

Try each instrument. For each one: make the sound, catch the feeling, match it to a feeling symbol in your log. Your matches are yours — no wrong answers.

Station 2 · RECORD A FAVOURITE

Record a short clip of your favourite sound. Say one word about the feeling if you want — the clip alone counts.

Station 3 · PLAY IT LIVE

Play your favourite to the group — opt-out completely fine. Then the big one: the set rehearses its moment as the RE showcase soundtrack. Two finales, one band.

Going for Grow: layer two sounds — drum under bells, shaker under song — and name the mood you built: that is a composer’s move.

EVIDENCE · Arts Award Explore log · sound→feeling page + clips · COMPLETES the half-term log · AQA UAS ‘Creating artwork’

Capture your evidence

Your sound→feeling page and clip complete the Explore log — TA banks both. Final entries (scribing counts):

My name:

My favourite sound and the instrument that makes it:

The feeling it gives me:

Skills I used today (tick with your TA): Creativity · Communication · Teamwork

Feedback loop: your teacher will deep-mark one part of this in dark green and draw a Yellow Box. Next lesson you respond inside it in a coloured pen of your choice.

EXIT TICKET

Show what you know

1. The Arts Award counts…

2. Loud/soft and fast/slow describe…

3. Today your Explore log…