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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Make plausible descriptions of the music.
- Identify a few instruments and the sounds of different sections of the orchestra.
- Explain what is happening in the music using language relating to emotion.
- Create a piece of music with some appropriate tempo, dynamic and timbre changes.
- Suggest appropriate musical timbres for each of the characters and tempo changes for the actions.
- Perform confidently using appropriate instrumental sounds.
Suggested prior learning
Lessons
Lesson 1: The Three Bears (archive)
Lesson 2: The Snow Queen (archive)
Lesson 1: The Three Bears
Lesson 3: Red Riding Hood (archive)
Lesson 2: The Snow Queen
Lesson 4: Jack and the Beanstalk (archive)
Lesson 3: Red Riding Hood
Lesson 5: Super storytellers (archive)
Lesson 4: Jack and the Beanstalk
Lesson 5: Super storytellers
Key skills
- Recognising timbre changes and
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Key knowledge
- To know that musical
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Key vocabulary
actions
brass
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Unit resources
Knowledge organiser – Music Y2: Orchestral instruments
A pupil-facing summary document for the Year 2 Orchestral instruments unit, including key vocabulary, images and facts.
Vocabulary display: Orchestral instruments
A display version of the key vocabulary from the Orchestral instruments unit.
Cross-curricular opportunities
English
Pupils should be taught to:
- Develop pleasure in reading […] by: becoming increasingly familiar with and retelling a wider range of stories, fairy stories and traditional tales.
- Understand both the books they can already read accurately and fluently and those they listen to by: making inferences on the basis of what is being said and done.
- Develop positive attitudes towards […] writing by: writing for different purposes.