Music: Key Stage 1
Lesson plans and teacher videos to instill confidence in your teaching of Music.
Units
We make teaching music simple with engaging lessons based on popular themes, from animals and seaside to to space and superheroes, all supported by teacher videos. We recommend you teach the units in the order they appear here. See our planning resources for further information.
Useful teaching resources
Subject planning
MusicMy favourite things: Keeping the pulse
Learning how to keep a steady pulse, pupils take part in music and movement activities inspired by their favourite things.
(5 lessons)
MusicSnail and mouse: Tempo
Using voices, bodies and instruments to listen and respond to different pieces of music, pupils learn and perform a rhyme and song with a focus on tempo.
(5 lessons)
MusicSeaside: Dynamics
Exploring the connection between sound and the environment, pupils work together to create a seaside soundscape using percussion instruments, vocal sounds and body percussion.
(5 lessons)
MusicFairytales: Sound patterns
Examining a range of fairytales, pupils identify key moments in each story and clap along to repeated words and phrases, creating rhythmic patterns.
(5 lessons)
MusicSuperheroes: Pitch
Exploring pitch by identifying high and low notes and combining different pitches to compose a simple superhero melody.
(5 lessons)
MusicUnder the sea: Musical symbols
Exploring the depths of the sea through music, movement, musical symbols and tuned percussion instruments.
(5 lessons)
KS1 teacher skills videos
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Music teacher skills KS1 dynamics
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Music teacher KS1 skills tempo
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