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Important note
In this unit, children make links between music, sounds and environments and use percussion, vocal and body sounds to represent the seaside. This unit replaces the Year 1 unit Vocal and body sounds (Theme: By the sea), which is permanently available in our archive but is no longer updated in line with curriculum or website developments.
For the most up-to-date information about our music scheme, please refer to the document Music: Long-term plan.
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Use appropriate, justified movements to represent dynamics.
- Identify sounds within the music and describe them using adjectives.
- Recreate sounds using voice or body and extend ideas by adding dynamics.
- Create appropriate, original sounds with their voice and body.
- Use instruments to create loud and soft sounds.
- Justify instrument and sound choices.
- Follow instructions during a performance.
- Create and play a musical score that showcases understanding by using dynamic symbols.
Suggested prior learning
Lessons
Lesson 1: Vocal and body sounds
Lesson 2: Embodying the seaside
Lesson 3: Musical treasure hunt
Lesson 4: Seaside story
Lesson 5: Seaside soundscape
Key skills
Listening and evaluating
- Listening with
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Key knowledge
To know
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Key vocabulary
dynamics
instrument
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Unit resources
Vocabulary display: Dynamics – Y1
A display version of the vocabulary from the unit Dynamics.
Knowledge organiser – Music Y1: Dynamics
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit Dynamics.
Subject resources
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Cross-curricular opportunities
English: Writing – vocabulary, grammar and punctuation, Spoken language.
Physical education.
Geography.