Note: The information in this resource can also be accessed online via the RSE & PSHE Curriculum portal.
This document has been updated to reflect the 2026/27 RSE and PSHE curriculum.
year: Year 1
Music: Staff Presentation
This presentation introduces you to our Music curriculum, highlighting features such as CPD support, videos to support notation, and our KS2 instrumental scheme. Our staff presentation has two main goals:
New to Music?
If your school is new to our Music curriculum, this presentation is the perfect introduction. It provides an ideal starting point for staff to explore.
Interested in Joining?
This presentation is your starting point for those eager to dive into Music with Kapow Primary. It’s a valuable tool to create awareness about what Kapow Primary can offer your school. After the presentation, we recommend starting a 14-day school free trial. This allows your colleagues to immerse themselves in the scheme and experience its full potential.
Design and technology: Resources and costings sheet
Uncover the key to seamless lesson planning with the Resources and costings sheet for our Design and technology scheme of work. Use this resource to efficiently allocate resources, manage costs effectively, and ensure a well-structured curriculum. Say goodbye to planning hassles and hello to a more organised and engaging teaching approach.
Original Art and design scheme: Intent, implementation and impact
This document outlines the intent and rationale behind Kapow Primary’s original Art and design curriculum (pre-September 2022), how to deliver it and how to measure pupil progress. This information can be used to help create your school’s bespoke Intent, Implementation and Impact statement, tailored to your school.
Our Curriculum overview shows which of our units cover each of the National curriculum attainment targets as well as each of the strands.
Our Progression of skills shows the skills that are taught within each year group and how these skills develop to ensure that attainment targets are securely met by the end of each key stage.
We recommend that schools no longer use the original scheme and transition to our revised Art scheme.
Knowledge organiser – Music Y1: Classical music, dynamics and tempo (Animals)
A Knowledge organiser that captures the essential knowledge and skills learnt throughout the now archived unit Music, Year 1, Classic music, dynamics and tempo (Animals).
This Music resource is designed to support the pupils as they explore how composers use musical elements to represent animals. It introduces key vocabulary such as tempo, dynamics, pitch, texture, and timbre, helping the pupils understand how music can create imagery and mood. The pupils will also study classical works by composers such as Camille Saint-Saëns, Sergei Prokofiev, and Modest Mussorgsky, analysing how they musically depict different animals.
Knowledge organiser: Music – Y1 Timbre and rhythmic patterns (Fairytales)
A Knowledge Organiser that captures the essential knowledge and skills learnt throughout the unit Archived unit: Timbre and rhythmic patterns (Theme: Fairytales).
This resource supports pupils as they explore musical storytelling by responding to and interpreting the sounds and rhythms found in fairytales. It introduces key vocabulary and concepts such as timbre, rhythm, and pulse, helping pupils identify different instrumental sounds and use them creatively to represent characters or actions. The unit encourages active listening and performance, using tuned and untuned percussion instruments to bring stories like Peter and the Wolf to life. Through these experiences, pupils develop confidence in performing, composing, and describing music expressively.
Knowledge organiser: Music – Y1 Dynamics (Theme: Seaside)
Knowledge organiser: Music – Y1 Pulse and rhythm
A Knowledge Organiser that captures the essential knowledge and skills learnt throughout the unit Archived unit: Pulse and rhythm (Theme: All about me).
This resource supports pupils as they explore the foundational elements of music through the exciting theme of superheroes. It introduces key vocabulary and concepts such as pulse, rhythm, and ‘in time’, helping pupils understand the steady beat of music and how long and short sounds can be used to create rhythmic patterns. The unit encourages movement, body percussion, and the use of untuned instruments like maracas, drums, tambourines, and woodblocks to reinforce rhythmic awareness. Through practical activities and performance, pupils build confidence in responding to music and performing as part of a group.
