Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Name some of the key features of Calypso music. Ability to sing the song accurately by the end of the lesson.
- Sing the song accurately, and perform their news headline correctly in the appropriate gap.
- Explain in simple terms why percussion instruments were important in Trinidad.
- Play the Sheet music: What’s the story? (tuned percussion part 1).
- Recognise pairs of quavers on a musical score, and ability to play these in context.
- Create a pentatonic improvisation using mainly one beat notes.
Suggested prior learning
Unit 1: South Africa (Instrumental lessons)
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Lesson 1: What is Calypso?
Lesson 2: What’s the story?
Lesson 3: Instrumental Calypso
Lesson 4: Calypso quavers
Lesson 5: Pentatonic Calypso
Key skills
Year 3
- Discussing the stylistic
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Key knowledge
- To know the key
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Unit resources
Assessment – Music KS2: Instrumental: Caribbean
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Cross-curricular opportunities
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