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Archived unit: Timbre and rhythmic patterns

Through fairy tales, children are introduced to the concept of timbre; learning that different sounds can represent characters and key moments in a story. They explore clapping along to the syllables of words and phrases before creating rhythmic patterns to tell a familiar fairy tale.

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This unit has now been replaced by the Year 1 unit Sound patterns (Theme: Fairytales) and will no longer be updated.

Unit outcomes

Pupils who are secure will be able to:

  • Chant the well-known phrase, “I’ll huff…”
  • Make changes to their voices to represent a character.
  • Choose a suitable sound to represent a specific point in a story.
  • Play a rhythmic pattern along with their spoken words.
  • Identify and hold up the correct sign to correspond to some music.
  • Play/chant along with the elements of a story with prompting from the teacher.

Suggested prior learning

Archived unit: Musical vocabulary (Theme: Under the sea)

 

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Lessons

Lesson 1: Timbre and rhythmic patterns: Character voices

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Lesson 2: Timbre and rhythmic pattern: Starting with instruments

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Lesson 3: Timbre and rhythmic patterns: Rhythms

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Lesson 4: Timbre and rhythmic patterns: Responding to music

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Lesson 5: Timbre and rhythmic patterns: Keeping the pulse

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Key skills

  • Recognising and understanding the
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  • To know that an
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Key vocabulary

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Knowledge organiser: Music – Y1 Timbre and rhythmic patterns (Fairytales)

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Cross-curricular opportunities

English

‘Pupils should be taught to:

develop pleasure in reading […] by:

  • recognising and joining in with predictable phrases
  • becoming very familiar with key stories, fairy stories and traditional tales, retelling them and considering their particular characteristics’

See 'National curriculum - English key stages 1 to 2'.

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Archived unit: Pitch and tempo (Theme: Superheroes)

 

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