year: Year 2
Vocabulary display: Instruments – Y2
Knowledge organiser – Music Y2: Instruments
A Knowledge organiser that captures the essential knowledge and skills learnt throughout the unit Music, Year 2, Instruments (Musical Storytelling).
This Music resource is designed to support the pupils as they explore how music can be used to tell stories and convey emotions. It introduces key vocabulary such as rhythm, tempo, pitch, dynamics, and motif, helping the pupils understand how composers use musical elements to create narrative and atmosphere. The pupils will also learn to identify storytelling techniques in music and experiment with composing their own musical stories.
Vocabulary display: Call and response – Y2
Knowledge organiser – Music Y2: Call and response
A Knowledge organiser that captures the essential knowledge and skills learnt throughout the unit Music, Year 2, Call and response (Animals).
This Music resource is designed to support the pupils as they explore how music can be used to represent different animals and their movements. It introduces key vocabulary such as tempo, dynamics, pitch, rhythm, and timbre, helping the pupils understand how composers use musical elements to depict animal characteristics. The pupils will also learn to identify different musical pieces that represent animals and experiment with creating their own animal-inspired compositions.
Religion and worldviews: Transitioning to Kapow Primary
Planning for each year group to support staff and pupils to smoothly transition to our Religion and worldviews, RE scheme of work. All year groups have catch-up units to build a solid foundation of essential knowledge and skills before proceeding to our intended units and lessons for the year group.
Each of the catch-up units consists of selected lessons taken from a range of units in the previous year groups. This will support both staff and pupils in feeling confident and comfortable when approaching more advanced lessons.
This guidance covers:
Lower key stage 2 RE scheme of work
Vocabulary display – R&W Y1/2 (A): What do some people believe God looks like?
Knowledge organiser – R&W Y1/2 (A): What do some people believe God looks like?
A Knowledge organiser that captures the essential knowledge and skills learnt throughout the mixed-age unit Religion and worldviews, Y1/2 (A), What do some people believe God looks like?
This resource is designed to support pupils as they begin to explore how different religions express their beliefs about God. It introduces key vocabulary including “belief,” “deity,” “Brahman,” and “Allah,” alongside visual representations of Christian, Muslim, and Hindu worldviews. Through images of Jesus, Islamic art, and Hindu deities, pupils gain a visual and conceptual understanding of how ideas of God are expressed in different faiths. This organiser promotes respect for diversity and helps lay the foundation for future learning in religious education.
