In this new unit, children explore keeping the pulse together through music and movement, by exploring their favourite things.

In this updated unit, children use bodies and instruments to listen and respond to pieces of music with fast and slow speeds; learn and perform a rhyme and a song focussing on fast and slow.

In this new unit, children make links between music, sounds and environments and use percussion, vocal and body sounds to represent the seaside.

This new unit uses fairytales to introduce children to the concept of sound patterns (rhythms). They explore clapping along to repeated words and phrases, creating rhythmic patterns to tell a familiar fairytale.

This new unit helps the children learn how to identify high and low notes and to compose a simple tune to represent a superhero.

In this new unit, the children combine all the musical concepts learned throughout Year 1 for an underwater-themed performance incorporating instrumental, vocal and body sounds.

Note: this unit has been replaced by the unit Tempo (Theme: Snail and mouse) and will no longer be updated. 

Children use their bodies and instruments to listen and respond to pieces of classical music that represent animals. They learn and perform a song as a class and compose a short section of music as a group, with a focus on dynamics and tempo.

Note: this unit has been replaced by the unit *NEW* Keeping the pulse (Theme: My favourite things) and will no longer be updated.  

Children learn to identify the difference between the pulse and rhythm of a song and consolidate their understanding of these concepts through listening and performing activities.

Note: this unit has been replaced by the unit *NEW* Musical symbols (Theme: Under the sea) and will no longer be updated.

Journey into the unknown and explore under the sea through music, movement, chanting and the playing of tuned percussion instruments.

Note: this unit has been replaced by the unit *NEW* Sound patterns (Theme: Fairytales) and will no longer be updated.

Through fairy tales, children are introduced to the concept of timbre; learning that different sounds can represent characters and key moments in a story. They explore clapping along to the syllables of words and phrases before creating rhythmic patterns to tell a familiar fairy tale.

Note: this unit has been replaced by the unit *NEW* Pitch (Theme: Superheroes) and will no longer be updated.

Learning how to identify high and low notes and to compose a simple tune, children investigate how tempo changes help tell a story and make music more exciting.

Note: this unit has been replaced by the unit *NEW* Dynamics (Theme: Seaside) and will no longer be updated.

Children make links between music, sounds and environments and use percussion, vocal and body sounds to represent calm or stormy seas.

In this unit, the children use instruments to represent animals, copying rhythms and creating call and response rhythms.

In this new unit, the children learn folk songs and create sounds to represent three contrasting landscapes: seaside, countryside and city.

This new unit helps children with developing knowledge and understanding of dynamics using instruments; learning to compose and play rhythms to represent planets.

This new lesson helps the children develop an understanding of structure by exploring and ordering rhythms.

In this new unit, children are exploring the song ‘Once a Man Fell in a Well’, playing it using tuned percussion and reading simple symbols representing pitch.

Note: this unit has been replaced by the unit *NEW* Call and response (Theme: Animals) and will no longer be updated.

Using instruments to represent animals, copying rhythms, learning a traditional Ghanaian call and response song and recognising simple notation, progressing to creating call and response rhythms.

Note: this unit has been replaced by the unit *NEW* Instruments (Theme: Musical storytelling) and will no longer be updated.

Children are introduced to the instruments of the orchestra and practice identifying these within a piece of music. They learn how different characters can be represented by timbre, how emotions can be represented by pitch and how changes in tempo can convey action.

Note: this unit has been replaced by the unit *NEW* Singing (Theme: On this island) and will no longer be updated.

Creating sounds to represent three contrasting landscapes: seaside, countryside and city.

Note: this unit has been replaced by the unit *NEW* Pitch (Theme: Musical me) and will no longer be updated.

Children learn to sing the song ‘Once a Man Fell in a Well’ and to play it using tuned percussion. Using letter notation to write a melody.

Note: this unit has been replaced by the unit *NEW* Contrasting dynamics (Theme: Space) and will no longer be updated.

Developing knowledge and understanding of dynamics, timbre, tempo and instruments; learning to compose and play motifs.

Note: this unit has been replaced by the unit *NEW* Structure (Theme: Myths and legends) and will no longer be updated.

Developing understanding of musical language and how timbre, dynamics and tempo affect the mood of a song.