Please note
This unit has now been replaced by the Year 1 unit Tempo (Theme: Snail and mouse). It is no longer being updated.
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Observe others and try to play appropriately.
- Sing in time from memory, with some accuracy.
- Play either a call and/or a response role in time with another pupil.
- Keep a steady pulse.
- Improvise, using their instrument, to a given stimulus.
Suggested prior learning
Lessons
Lesson 1: Classical music, dynamics and tempo: Percussive animals
Lesson 2: Classical music, dynamics and tempo: Singing animals
Lesson 3: Classical music, dynamics and tempo: Performing animals
Lesson 4: Classical music, dynamics and tempo: Composing animals
Lesson 5: Classical music, dynamics and tempo: The story of the lion
Key skills
- Recognising basic tempo, dynamic
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Key knowledge
- To understand that sounds
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Key vocabulary
fast
slow
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Unit resources
Assessment – Music Y1: Classical music, dynamics and tempo
Assessment resources for this unit. Use
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Knowledge organiser
Resource for pupils' use, summarising the
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Subject resources
Music: Long-term plans
A suggested order for teaching Music
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National curriculum mapping
This National curriculum coverage mapping document
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Music: Pupil progression of skills
Progression document showing how skills and
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Assessment
An assessment tool for monitoring the
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Equipment list
A list of essential and optional
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Unit vocabulary
A unit-by-unit list of musical vocabulary
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Music teacher skills videos
A collection of teacher skills videos
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Cross-curricular opportunities
Physical Education
‘Pupils should be taught to:
- perform dances using simple movement patterns’
See 'National curriculum - Physical Education key stages 1 and 2'.
Science
‘Pupils should be taught to:
- identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals’
See 'National curriculum - Science key stages 1 and 2'.
English
‘Pupils should be taught to:
- articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions
- participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debates
- develop pleasure in reading […] by: learning to appreciate rhymes and poems, and to recite some by heart’
