Dynamics
Children make links between music, sounds and environments and use percussion, vocal and body sounds to represent calm or stormy seas.
Important note
This unit is new to Year 1 for 2024/25. Please see our Music: Long-term plan for more information about recent updates to our scheme and how they may affect your school.
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Use appropriate, justified movements to represent dynamics.
- Identify sounds within the music and describe them using adjectives.
- Recreate sounds using voice or body and extend ideas by adding dynamics.
- Create appropriate, original sounds with their voice and body.
- Use instruments to create loud and soft sounds.
- Justify instrument and sound choices.
- Follow instructions during a performance.
- Create and play a musical score that showcases understanding by using dynamic symbols.
Suggested prior learning
Tempo (Theme: Snail and mouse)
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Lessons
Lesson 1: Vocal and body sounds
Lesson 2: Embodying the seaside
Lesson 3: Musical treasure hunt
Lesson 4: Seaside story
Lesson 5: Seaside soundscape
Key skills
Listening and evaluating
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Key knowledge
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Key vocabulary
dynamics
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Unit resources
Assessment – Year 1: Dynamics
Assessment resources for this unit. Use
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Key vocabulary
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Knowledge organiser
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Subject resources
Music: Long-term plans
A suggested order for teaching Music
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National curriculum mapping
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Music: Pupil progression of skills
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Assessment
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Equipment list
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Key vocabulary
A unit-by-unit list of musical vocabulary
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Music teacher skills videos
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Cross-curricular opportunities
English: Writing – vocabulary, grammar and punctuation, Spoken language.
Physical education.
Geography.
Build on the learning
*NEW* Sound patterns (Theme: Fairytales)
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