Archive

Archived unit: West African call and response song

Using instruments to represent animals, copying rhythms, learning a traditional Ghanaian call and response song and recognising simple notation, progressing to creating call and response rhythms.

Free trial

New statutory RSHE guidance is here. We’re creating our brand new RSE & PSHE scheme ready for September 2026. Learn more
  1. Content archive >
  2. Music > Key stage 1 > Archived unit: West African call and response song (Theme: Animals)
Bell

This unit is archived. Our revised unit is aligned to current guidance. Visit the new unit

Please note

This unit has now been replaced by the Year 2 unit Call and response (Theme: Animals). Kapow no longer updates these lessons, and they may not reflect the national curriculum or current guidance. They remain a permanent part of your subscription and will continue to be available for reference and use. We recommend that you explore the new versions of the lessons.

Unit outcomes

Pupils who are secure will be able to:

  • Use tempo, dynamics and timbre in their piece.
  • Play in time with their group.
  • Use instruments appropriately.
  • Successfully sing back the melody line in time and at the correct pitch.
  • Play either a call and/or response role in time with another pupil.
  • Perform their composition.

Suggested prior learning

Archived unit: Vocal and body sounds (Theme: By the sea)

 

Get started

Lessons

Lesson 1: Going on safari

View lesson

Lesson 2: Rhythmic safari

View lesson

Lesson 3: Call and response

View lesson

Lesson 4: Rhythmic response

View lesson

Lesson 5: The safari event

View lesson

Key skills

  • Recognising timbre changes in
Lock

This content is for subscribers only. Join for access today.

Join Log in

Key knowledge

  • To know that dynamics
Lock

This content is for subscribers only. Join for access today.

Join Log in

Key vocabulary

actions

backing track

Lock

This content is for subscribers only. Join for access today.

Join Log in

Related content

    Resources

Unit resources

Padlock
Music

Knowledge organiser – Y2 Music: West African call and response song (Animals)

Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit " Archived unit: West African…

View
Padlock
Music

Vocabulary display: West African call & response song

A display version of the key vocabulary from the Tempo unit.

Download

Cross-curricular opportunities

English

‘Pupils should be taught to:

  • maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations, staying on topic and initiating and responding to comments
  • participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debates’

See 'National curriculum - English key stages 1 and 2'.

 

Science

‘Pupils should be taught to:

  • identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including micro-habitats’

See 'National curriculum - Science key stages 1 and 2'.

Build on the learning

Archived unit: Orchestral instruments (Theme: Traditional Western stories)

 

Get started

Popular content

Other subjects

Please don’t screenshot or copy images from this page.
Kapow Primary resources are created by teachers and protected by copyright. Copying images or slides into your own presentations (for example using the Snipping Tool) counts as reproducing the resource and isn’t permitted under the Kapow licence.
This resource is being accessed through your school’s Kapow licence.
Thank you for respecting the work of the teachers who create these materials.