Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Clap the rhythm of their name.
- Sing the melody accurately while playing their instrument in time.
- Show a range of emotions using their voices.
- Describe the dynamics and timbre of their pieces.
- Play a known melody from letter notation in the right order, if not with the right rhythms.
- Play a new melody from letter notation in the right order, if not in time.
- Invent a melody, write it down and play it back.
- Select instruments with different timbres.
- Compose and perform a piece using different dynamic levels.
Suggested prior learning
Orchestral instruments (Theme: Traditional Western stories)
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: Once a man fell in a well
Lesson 2: Dynamics and timbre
Lesson 3: Melody
Lesson 4: My own melody
Lesson 5: Group composition
Key skills
- Recognising timbre changes and
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Key knowledge
- To understand that ‘melody’
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Key vocabulary
beat
composer
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Assessment – Year 2: Musical me
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Knowledge organiser: Music – Y2 Musical me
A document to consolidate pupils' understanding
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Key vocabulary
Subject resources
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Music: Long-term plans
A suggested order for teaching Music
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Assessment
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Equipment list
A list of essential and optional
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Key vocabulary
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Music teacher skills videos
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Cross-curricular opportunities
English
‘Pupils should be taught to:
- understand both the texts they can already read […] and those they listen to by: making inferences on the basis of what is being said and done
- name the letters of the alphabet
- maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations, staying on topic and initiating and responding to comments’