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KS2 Music: Treasure Island

These web pages are an ideal resource for ing Music at KS2 while introducing pupils to the classic text Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. There are seven songs to learn and vocal coach David Grant is here to teach them - one song per content page. The styles range from rock ’n’ roll to rap, blues to waltz…there’s a Latin flavour and lots of opportunity for percussion and plenty of adventure!

Full details in the Teacher's Notes.

A sailor's hornpipe with a little bit of pirate rap!

1. Skull and crossbones

Jim bemoans his lack of adventure by singing the blues

2. Jim's blues

A comic song in waltz-time for the pirates

3. Little bit of rum

A song for Benn Gunn - discovered on Treasure Island

4. Ben Gunn

Rock 'n' roll inspired by surfing sounds

5. Jimmy be good

A Latin number for the pirates about the 'black spot'

6. Punto nero

An upbeat Finale with a South American flavour

7. Hispaniola

All the video and audio clips from Treasure Island on a single page

8. Video and audio clips

audio (mp3) of the songs

Audio s

The story

Jim Hawkins - aged 12 - lives and works at the iral Benbow Inn on the Bristol Channel. One day an old sailor - Billy Bones - arrives looking for lodgings and before long other sailors arrive too, looking for him. It turns out that Billy Bones has a map, the key to finding a lost treasure hoard in the Caribbean. For Jim it is the start of the great adventure: he and his friends charter the Hispaniola and sail. But their crew includes a number of pirates including Long John Silver and soon he has control of the ship…

How to use these web pages

The content for Treasure Island is structured on the seven songs to learn. Each song appears on its own dedicated page and includes the following resources:

  • Song tutorial video (around 15 minutes in length)
  • Karaoke full vocal version of the song (for rehearsal)
  • Karaoke backing track of the song (for performance)
  • A video of the story episode that links to the song
  • Lyrics to display or
  • Music to display or
  • A transcript of the story episode
  • Teacher's Notes describing the content of the tutorial and how best to use it.

Use the Tutorial video to begin learning each song: David Grant guides pupils through each song methodically, giving extra attention to any difficult ages or activities in groups.

Use the Story video to watch an episode of the story. Each episode links to the song on the same page and is about 6 minutes long.

Use the Full vocal and Backing track versions of the songs to revise them in preparation for a performance.

Additionally there is a Clips page where you can the audio mp3 files of the full vocal and backing track versions of the songs.

Resources

Guidance on using all the content in the series (pdf)

Teacher's Notes

Meet the characters from the story

Meet the characters

Sing the vocal warm-up

Vocal warm-up

Number the images on the PDF to place the events of the story in the correct order.

Sequencing activity

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