A Knowledge organiser that captures the essential knowledge and skills learnt throughout the unit Music, Year 3, Ballads.
This Music resource is designed to support the pupils as they explore ballads’ features and storytelling elements. It introduces key vocabulary such as verse, chorus, melody, dynamics, and tempo, helping the pupils understand how ballads convey emotion and narrative through lyrics and music. The pupils will also learn to identify and perform ballads, recognising their structure and expressive qualities.
A Knowledge organiser that captures the essential knowledge and skills learnt throughout the unit Music, Year 3, Creating compositions in response to an animation (Mountains)
This Music resource is designed to support the pupils as they explore how musical elements can be used to represent landscapes, specifically mountains. It introduces key vocabulary such as tempo, dynamics, pitch, texture, and structure, helping the pupils understand how composers use these elements to create a sense of height, vastness, and movement. The pupils will also experiment with composition techniques to create their own musical representations of mountains.
A Knowledge organiser that captures the essential knowledge and skills learnt throughout the unit Music, Year 3, Developing singing technique (The Vikings).
This Music resource is designed to support the pupils as they explore how music can be used to tell stories about Viking history and mythology. It introduces key vocabulary such as rhythm, pulse, dynamics, tempo, and texture, helping the pupils understand how musical elements create atmosphere and drama. The pupils will also learn about traditional instruments that may have been used during the Viking era and how rhythms and melodies reflect historical narratives.
A Knowledge organiser that captures the essential knowledge and skills learnt throughout the unit Music, Year 3, Traditional instruments and improvisation (India).
This Music resource is designed to support the pupils as they explore traditional Indian music and its cultural significance. It introduces key vocabulary such as raga, tala, drone, pitch, and improvisation, helping the pupils understand how melody, rhythm, and harmony are used in Indian compositions. The pupils will also learn about traditional Indian instruments, such as the sitar, tabla, and tanpura, and how they contribute to the distinctive sound of Indian music.
A Knowledge organiser that captures the essential knowledge and skills learnt throughout the unit Music, Year 3, Pentatonic melodies and composition (Chinese New Year).
This Music resource is designed to support the pupils as they explore traditional Chinese music and its cultural significance in Chinese New Year celebrations. It introduces key vocabulary such as pentatonic scale, tempo, dynamics, texture, and melody, helping the pupils understand how these musical elements are used in Chinese compositions. The pupils will also learn about traditional Chinese instruments, such as the guzheng, erhu, and dizi, and how they contribute to the distinct sound of Chinese music.
A Knowledge organiser that captures the essential knowledge and skills learnt throughout the now archived unit Music, Year 2, Dynamics, Timbre, Tempo and Motifs.
This Music resource is designed to support the pupils as they explore how different musical elements create expression and mood. It introduces key vocabulary such as dynamics, timbre, tempo, motif, and structure, helping the pupils understand how composers use these elements to shape music. The pupils will also learn how to recognise repeated motifs in compositions and how tempo and dynamic changes affect a piece’s character.
A Knowledge organiser that captures the essential knowledge and skills learnt throughout the now archived unit Music, Year 1, Classic music, dynamics and tempo (Animals).
This Music resource is designed to support the pupils as they explore how composers use musical elements to represent animals. It introduces key vocabulary such as tempo, dynamics, pitch, texture, and timbre, helping the pupils understand how music can create imagery and mood. The pupils will also study classical works by composers such as Camille Saint-Saëns, Sergei Prokofiev, and Modest Mussorgsky, analysing how they musically depict different animals.
A summary of the key concepts, themes, instruments and vocabulary in the Key stage 1 year 1 Music unit about timbre and rhythm based on a fairy tale theme.
This resource details the key facts, vocabulary and progression of knowledge covered in the Key Stage 1 Music Year 1 unit: Vocal and body sounds (By the sea). In this unit, children are encouraged to feel pieces of music by moving in ways they think convey its mood. They also make links between music, sounds and environments. These skills are used to help them represent calm or stormy seas using vocal and body sounds as well as percussion instruments
This Knowledge organiser encapsulates the key facts, vocabulary and themes taught in the unit, including how music can represent things such as the weather, the ocean and so on. The document is suitable for printing on A4 and for classroom display and can be used as a recap or refresher for the pupils at the end of a unit and school year. You can find other Knowledge organisers for Kapow Primary Music units here: Year 1 Knowledge organisers.
