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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Sing in time and in tune with other people and the backing track.
- Remember the lyrics to a song.
- Identify the structure of a piece of music and match this to non-standard notation.
- Improvise their own piece of music.
- Play a melody with reasonable accuracy.
- Perform with confidence and in time with others.
- Compose and play a melody using stave notation.
- Contribute meaningfully to the group performance and composition.
- Use hieroglyphic notation to show the structure of their piece.
Suggested prior learning
Adapting and transposing motifs (Theme: Romans)
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Lessons
Lesson 1: Here come the Egyptians
Lesson 2: Hieroglyphic score
Lesson 3: Play like an Egyptian
Lesson 4: Pitch pyramids
Lesson 5: Egyptian farewell
Key skills
- Representing the features of
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Key knowledge
- To know that simple
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Key vocabulary
accuracy
backing track
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Knowledge organiser: Music – Y5 Composition notation
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit Composition notation.
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Vocabulary display: Composition notation
A display version of the vocabulary from the unit Composition notation.
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