Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Correctly label all staff notation features.
- Share their ideas about South African music.
- Play both Sheet music: Put on your gumboots! (tuned percussion part 1) and Sheet music: Put on your gumboots! (tuned percussion part 2) patterns accurately and in time.
- Play both patterns accurately and in time.
- Play the rhythmic pattern and sing the tune accurately and in time.
- Create and perform an eight-beat rhythm pattern.
See Music: Instrumental scheme for guidance on how to incorporate the instrumental scheme into your planning.
Suggested prior learning
This is the first unit in the instrumental scheme.Lessons
Lesson 1: Introduction to staff notation
Lesson 2: Minims
Lesson 3: Semibreves
Lesson 4: Crotchets and rests
Lesson 5: Gumboot dance
Key skills
Year 3
- Discussing the stylistic
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Key knowledge
- To know the key
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Key vocabulary
afropop
bar chimes
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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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- 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: KS2 Instrumental Music: South Africa
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit "Unit 1: South Africa (Instrumental…
Vocabulary display: Instrumental lesson – South Africa
A display version of the key vocabulary for the 'Instrumental lesson - South Africa' unit.
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Cross-curricular opportunities
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