Important note
This unit is new to Year 2 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 dynamics when creating sound.
- Play in time with a group.
- Experiment with different sounds on the same instrument.
- Clap the animal sound patterns mostly accurately.
- Clap the sound patterns in time with the pulse of the backing track.
- Demonstrate both a call and response.
- Copy a sound pattern using an instrument.
- Playing either a call and/or response role in time with another pupil.
- Perform a composition.
Suggested prior learning
*NEW* Musical symbols (Theme: Under the sea)
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Lessons
Lesson 1: Animal sounds
Lesson 2: Sound pattern safari
Lesson 3: Call and response
Lesson 4: Instrumental response
Lesson 5: Dynamics performance
Key skills
Listening and evaluating
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Key knowledge
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Key vocabulary
call and response
dynamics
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Unit resources
Assessment – Year 2: Call and response
Assessment resources for this unit. Use
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Knowledge organiser
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Key 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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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: Spoken language
Physical education
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*NEW* Instruments (Theme: Musical storytelling)
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