Music: Key Stage 1
Lesson plans and teacher videos to instill confidence in your teaching of Music.
Important note
Please note that the Year 1 and 2 units have been refreshed for 2024/25. The previous versions will remain accessible until the end of the 2025/26 academic year. For more details, refer to our Music: Long-term plan.
Useful resources for teaching Music
Useful resources for teaching Music
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Year 1
In this new unit, children explore keeping the pulse together through music and movement, by exploring their favourite things.
Lessons: 5
View lessonsIn 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.
Lessons: 5
View lessonsIn this new unit, children make links between music, sounds and environments and use percussion, vocal and body sounds to represent the seaside.
Lessons: 5
View lessonsThis 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.
Lessons: 5
View lessonsThis new unit helps the children learn how to identify high and low notes and to compose a simple tune to represent a superhero.
Lessons: 5
View lessonsIn 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.
Lessons: 5
View lessonsYear 2
In this unit, the children use instruments to represent animals, copying rhythms and creating call and response rhythms.
Lessons: 5
View lessonsThis new unit helps the children learn how events, actions and feelings within stories can be represented by pitch, dynamics and tempo.
Lessons: 5
View lessonsIn this new unit, the children learn folk songs and create sounds to represent three contrasting landscapes: seaside, countryside and city.
Lessons: 5
View lessonsThis new unit helps children with developing knowledge and understanding of dynamics using instruments; learning to compose and play rhythms to represent planets.
Lessons: 5
View lessonsThis new lesson helps the children develop an understanding of structure by exploring and ordering rhythms.
Lessons: 5
View lessonsIn 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.
Lessons: 5
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