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Teacher video: Musical theatre: Unit overview
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Explain what musical theatre is and be able to recall at least three features of this kind of music.
- Categorise songs as action songs or character songs.
- Select appropriate existing music for their scene to tell the story of a journey.
- Perform in time with their groups, ensuring smooth transitions between spoken dialogue, singing and dancing.
Suggested prior learning
South and West Africa
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Lesson plans
Lesson 1: What is musical theatre?
Lesson 2: Character or action song
Lesson 3: Create your own musical
Lesson 4: Rehearsing my musical
Lesson 5: Performing my musical
Key skills
- Recognising and confidently discussing
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Key knowledge
- To understand that musical
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Key vocabulary
action song
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Unit resources
Knowledge organiser: Music Y5 – Musical theatre
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit Musical theatre.
Vocabulary display: Musical theatre
A display version of the vocabulary from the unit Musical theatre.
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Suggested next steps
Songs of World War 2
Pupils build on their knowledge from these musical theatre lesson plans, where they combined singing, acting, and dancing, to further develop skills in following melody lines, timing, and pitch accuracy.