Please note
In 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. The Archived unit: Classical music, dynamics and tempo (Theme: Animals) will no longer be updated. 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:
- Demonstrate slow and fast with their bodies and voices.
- Demonstrate slow and fast beats while saying a rhyme and using an instrument.
- Perform a song using a singing voice.
- Perform with an instrument.
- Observe others and move, speak, sing and play appropriately.
- Sing in time from memory, with some accuracy.
- Keep a steady pulse.
- Move, speak, sing and play demonstrating slow and fast beats.
Suggested prior learning
Lessons
Lesson 1: Snail and mouse
Lesson 2: Exploring rhyme with snail and mouse
Lesson 3: Singing snail and mouse
Lesson 4: Performing snail and mouse
Lesson 5: The story of snail and mouse
Key skills
- Recognising basic tempo changes.
- Describing
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Key knowledge
To know:
- That sound can
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Key vocabulary
beat
fast
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Unit resources
Assessment – Music Y1: Tempo
Assessment resources for this unit. Use
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Knowledge organiser
A pupil facing summary document for
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Unit vocabulary
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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
English: Spoken language, Reading – comprehension.
