Video Resources

The concentration song

Key stage KS1, KS2

Topic Music

This fantastic song uses body percussion and builds up to two-part singing to try in your school.

The concentration song is suitable for KS1 & KS2 children and features Artis Specialist Laura Carter (Chirp), leading the activity.

Related resources

Pulse warm up activity

Artis Mentor, Stuart (Chime) presents this simple warm up, or refocus activity, to encourage children to work as a team and develop their pulse and rhythm skills. Numeracy skills are also encouraged with the counting of the rhythm and can be further developed to include adding and subtraction.

Key stage KS1, KS2

Topic Maths
Fish game: concentration and focus

In The Fish game the teacher will use one hand to represent the sea and the other to represent the fish; every time the fish jumps out of the sea children have to clap together. This activity can be used to re-focus children to get ready for work, they'll have to watch closely and concentrate to be able to clap exactly at the same time.

Key stage KS1, KS2

Topic Communication
Clap and click: concentration and focus

Using a hand drum, teacher plays a rhythm and children clap it back. Then the skin and rim of the drum can be used and the children are asked to clap when they hear the skin and click when they hear the rim. To make the activity more challenging these can be switched round so the skin is a click and the rim a clap.

Key stage KS1, KS2

Topic Music

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