A four-week music plan for ages 11-13
Use one small focus each week: rhythm, melody, words, then a short idea that joins your favourites. This is a flexible parent plan, not four deadlines or a test. Repeat a week, change the order or stop when that better fits the learner. The age band is a suggested starting level.
The child activities are offline and use paper, a pencil and optional soft sounds or comfortable humming. No instrument, app, child account, recording or public sharing is required. Older learners can decide whether they want a partner or just help setting up. Pointing, drawing and describing support planning and discussion; they do not claim to reproduce every listening or performing task.
Before the first week
Open the ages 11-13 activity pack. Choose one activity for the first session and leave the rest for later. Ask what the learner wants to try. A few minutes is enough to begin; there is no required lesson length or weekly completion score.
Week 1: answer a rhythm
Keep the call fixed and try two answers from the pack. Leave at least one space in the answer. Count while a partner performs, or compare the written plan.
Keep: Keep the call and both answer grids.
Ask together: Which answer makes the ending clearer to you, and why?
Week 2: redirect a melody
Use the repeat-and-redirect task. Keep the first idea and change the final note of its repeat. Compare at the same pace and comfortable range.
Keep: Draw both contours and mark the final-note change.
Ask together: Does the ending sound like a stop or a way onward? Either view needs a reason, not a score.
Week 3: move a scene forward
Continue the last-bus lyric prompt. Keep draft A and replace one vague word in B with an action or object. Speak both at the same pace.
Keep: Underline the edit and describe what it added.
Ask together: Did line two tell us something new?
Week 4: make a short scene sketch
Invent a scene at a closed seaside kiosk. Plan a call and answer, a repeating three-note idea and two lyric lines. Try each separately, then choose two that fit together. A written or spoken plan is enough.
Keep: Keep the first sketch and one revised version.
Ask together: Which single revision served your chosen scene best?
Decide what happens after week four
Ask which part the learner would like to return to: sounds and timing, tunes, words, or putting ideas together. Interest can change. Repeating a favourite task is a useful next step; finishing this plan does not prove readiness for a graded exam or a particular instrument.
For a possible instrument route, use choosing a music-learning path. For more flexible home sessions, return to the home music plan.
Optional preparation for the adult
This reused app capture shows a rhythm grid for separate adult preparation. It is not the paper activity, evidence of a child session or a required step. The adult can also find Prepare a pulse-and-pattern activity under Short courses in the app. That practice course does not create a child account or assess the learner.
Under-13 accounts are unavailable. Before any separate app activity, check the current family access guide and service rules. A lesson age label does not grant access.
About this plan
Prepared for Hearhood by Scopra with AI assistance. The fourth-week prompts are original editorial examples; the earlier tasks build on the linked activity pack. Listening, performing and composing are broad strands in England's music programmes of study. This is not an accredited curriculum, a claim of tested child outcomes or physical instrument tuition.