Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Name some of the key features of calypso music. Ability to sing the song accurately by the end of the lesson.
- Sing the song accurately, and perform their news headline correctly in the appropriate gap.
- Explain in simple terms why percussion instruments were important in Trinidad.
- Play the sheet music: What’s the story?: Tuned percussion part one.
- Recognise pairs of quavers on a musical score and the ability to play these in context.
- Create a pentatonic improvisation using mainly one-beat notes.
See Music: Instrumental scheme for guidance on how to incorporate the instrumental scheme into your planning.
Suggested prior learning
Unit 1: South Africa (Instrumental lessons)
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Lessons
Lesson 1: What is calypso?
Lesson 2: What’s the story?
Lesson 3: Instrumental calypso
Lesson 4: Calypso quavers
Lesson 5: Pentatonic calypso
Key skills
Year 3
- Discussing the stylistic
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Key knowledge
To know:
- The key features
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Key vocabulary
calypso
griot
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Equipment list
Equipment needed across all lessons in this unit.
This list does not include equipment which is usually readily available in the classroom (e.g pencils, A4 paper etc)
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Quantities marked × will update. Items without quantities are unaffected
- Tuned percussion instrument – Choose from chromatic glockenspiels, with sharp and flat notes, xylophones, metallophones, chime bars (two octave set) ×15
- Untuned percussion instruments (claves, guiros, egg shakers, gongs / cymbals) ×15
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Unit resources
Knowledge organiser – Music KS2 Instrumental: Caribbean
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit ‘KS2 Instrumental: Caribbean’.
Vocabulary display – Music KS2 Instrumental: Caribbean
A display version of the vocabulary from the unit ‘KS2 Instrumental: Caribbean’.
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Cross-curricular opportunities
British values: Individual liberty; Mutual respect.
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Unit 3: South America (Instrumental lessons)
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