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Learning objective

  • To create rhythms based on call and response.

Success criteria

  • I can work with my partner to think
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Music

Pupils should be taught to:

  •  Play
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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Display the Presentation: Call and response and show the children the animals on each slide. Ask the children to work with a partner to come up with a call and response for the animals, e.g. Call: hippo; response: likes to swim. Encourage them to be inventive with their call and responses.

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

Could provide suggestions for a ‘call and response’ question and answer and model how this works as a rhythm; should encourage groups needing more support to keep their performances simple, rather than introducing different structures.

Pupils working at greater depth

May ask them to lead their group and write down the appropriate things to help them remember next time.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: playing either a call and/or response

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Vocabulary definitions

  • call and response

    One person sings or plays something and others sing or play something back, in reply.

  • rhythm

    A pattern of long and short sounds.

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In this unit

Assessment - Music Y2: West African call and response song

Lesson 1: Going on safari

Lesson 2: Rhythmic safari

Lesson 3: Call and response

Lesson 4: Rhythmic response

Lesson 5: The safari event

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Maintained by: Kapow Primary team

Last update: 15th January, 2026

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