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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Move and sing as a team, following the lyrics on the screen.
- Recognise minims, crotchets and quavers often by ear and reliably by sight.
- Perform rhythms accurately from notation and layer them to create a composition.
- Add appropriate sound effects to their performances using untuned percussion.
- Join in with the performances confidently, and reasonably in time and tune.
- Make suggestions for improving their performance.
Suggested prior learning
Creating compositions in response to an animation (Theme: Mountains)
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Lessons
Lesson 1: Here come the Vikings!
Lesson 2: Sing like a Viking
Lesson 3: Viking notation
Lesson 4: Viking battle song
Lesson 5: Perform like a Viking
Key skills
- Understanding that music from
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Key knowledge
To know:
- The group of
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Key vocabulary
accuracy
backing track
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Unit resources
Music
Knowledge organiser – Music Y3: Developing singing technique (The Vikings)
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit Developing singing technique.
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Vocabulary display: Developing singing technique (Theme: the Vikings)
A display version of the vocabulary from the unit Developing singing technique.
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Cross-curricular opportunities
History
‘Pupils should be taught about:
- the Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England to the time of Edward the Confessor’
See 'National curriculum - History key stages 1 and 2'.
Build on the learning
Pentatonic melodies and composition (Theme: Chinese New Year)
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