Please note
This unit has now been replaced by the Year 1 unit Sound patterns (Theme: Fairytales) and will no longer be updated.
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Chant the well-known phrase, “I’ll huff…”
- Make changes to their voices to represent a character.
- Choose a suitable sound to represent a specific point in a story.
- Play a rhythmic pattern along with their spoken words.
- Identify and hold up the correct sign to correspond to some music.
- Play/chant along with the elements of a story with prompting from the teacher.
Suggested prior learning
Lessons
Lesson 1: Timbre and rhythmic patterns: Character voices
Lesson 2: Timbre and rhythmic pattern: Starting with instruments
Lesson 3: Timbre and rhythmic patterns: Rhythms
Lesson 4: Timbre and rhythmic patterns: Responding to music
Lesson 5: Timbre and rhythmic patterns: Keeping the pulse
Key skills
- Recognising and understanding the
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Key knowledge
- To know that an
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Key vocabulary
bassoon
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Unit resources
Assessment – Music Y1: Timbre and rhythmic patterns
Assessment resources for this unit. Use
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Knowledge organiser
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Unit vocabulary
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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Unit 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
‘Pupils should be taught to:
develop pleasure in reading […] by:
- recognising and joining in with predictable phrases
- becoming very familiar with key stories, fairy stories and traditional tales, retelling them and considering their particular characteristics’
