Please note
This unit has now been replaced by the Year 2 unit *NEW* Structure (Theme: Myths and legends) and will no longer be updated.
Unit outcomes
- Create rhythms and arrange them in a particular order or structure.
- Identify the structure of a piece of music and write it down.
- Describe whether a musical texture is thick or thin.
- Explore ways of writing down different textural layers.
- Follow a given structure for a composition.
- Write a structure score accurately.
- Compose music with several layers.
- Perform their composition accurately, following the structure score.
Suggested prior learning
Lessons
Lesson 1: Rhythm and structure
Lesson 2: Structured graphic score
Lesson 3: Layered graphic score
Lesson 4: Compose with structure
Lesson 5: Rehearse and perform
Key skills
- Recognising timbre changes in
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Key knowledge
- I know that a
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Key vocabulary
beat
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Unit resources
Assessment – Music Y2: Myths and legends
Assessment resources for this unit. Use
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Knowledge organiser
Aimed at pupils, a single page
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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
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
English
‘Pupils should be taught to:
- develop pleasure in reading […] by:
- becoming increasingly familiar with and retelling a wider range of stories, fairy stories and traditional tales
- participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debates’.
See National curriculum - English key stages 1 to 2.
British values: Mutual respect.
