Musical symbols
Children combine all the musical concepts learned throughout Year 1 for an underwater-themed performance incorporating instrumental, vocal and body sounds.
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:
- Move to reflect a character.
- Create sounds to reflect a character
- Move at a speed that reflects the tempo of the audio.
- Respond to dynamic changes without prompting.
- Demonstrate a sound pattern correctly to a pulse.
- Sing and play high and low sounds.
- Read symbols representing high and low sounds correctly.
- Demonstrate an awareness of pitch, rhythm and dynamics within a performance and recognise the symbols representing these.
Suggested prior learning
*NEW* Pitch (Theme: Superheroes)
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Lessons
Lesson 1: Showing tempo
Lesson 2: Exploring dynamics
Lesson 3: Rhythm
Lesson 4: Using pitch
Lesson 5: Under the sea performance
Key skills
Listening and evaluating
- Listening with
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Key knowledge
To be
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Key vocabulary
dynamics
pitch
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Unit resources
Assessment – Year 1: Musical symbols
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
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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Key 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
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