Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Identify how different styles of music contribute to the feel of a film.
- Participate in discussions, sharing their views and justifying their answers.
- Use the terms ‘major’ and ‘minor’.
- Identify different instruments to describe how music evokes different emotions.
- Identify pitch, tempo and dynamics, and use these to explain and justify their answers.
- Give reasonable and thought-out suggestions for what different graphic scores represent.
- Use their body, voice and instruments to create sounds to represent a given theme.
- Create a musical score to represent a composition.
- Interpret their graphic score and performing their composition appropriately with their group.
- Create sounds that relate to the scene of a film.
From January 2025, lessons within this unit will also feature a Recap and recall section and our Presentation mode feature.
Suggested prior learning
Songs of World War 2
Get startedLesson plans
Lesson 1: Soundtracks
Lesson 2: Scenes and sounds
Lesson 3: Following the score
Lesson 4: Composing for film
Lesson 5: The soundtrack
Key skills
- Recognising and confidently discussing
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Key knowledge
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Key vocabulary
accelerando
body percussion
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Unit resources
Assessment – Music Y6: Film music
Assessment resources for this unit. Use
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Y6 Film Music lessons knowledge organiser
Designed to consolidate pupils' understanding, the
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Y6 Film Music lessons vocabulary display
Subject resources
Music: Long-term plans
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National curriculum mapping
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Music: Pupil progression of skills
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Assessment
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Equipment list
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Unit vocabulary
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Music teacher skills videos
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Cross-curricular opportunities
None relevant to this unit.
Build on the learning
Theme and variations (Theme: Pop Art)
Pupils build on their knowledge from the film music lesson plan, where they explored how music evokes emotions, to help them perform rhythms and match instruments to art pieces.