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Please note
In this unit, the children combine all the musical concepts learned throughout Year 1 for an underwater-themed performance incorporating instrumental, vocal and body sounds. This unit replaces the Year 1 unit Musical vocabulary (Theme: Under the sea), which is permanently available in our archive but is no longer updated in line with curriculum or website developments.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:
- Move to reflect a character.
- Create sounds to reflect a character
- Move at a speed that reflects the tempo of the audio.
- Respond to dynamic changes without prompting.
- Demonstrate a sound pattern correctly to a pulse.
- Sing and play high and low sounds.
- Read symbols representing high and low sounds correctly.
- Demonstrate an awareness of pitch, rhythm and dynamics within a performance and recognise the symbols representing these.
Suggested prior learning
Lessons
Lesson 1: Showing tempo
Lesson 2: Exploring dynamics
Lesson 3: Rhythm
Lesson 4: Using pitch
Lesson 5: Under the sea performance
Key skills
Listening and evaluating
- Listening with
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Key knowledge
To know that:
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Key vocabulary
dynamics
pitch
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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
- Instruments, ideally glockenspiel or chime bars, bells, triangles and other instruments that make similar sounds
- Video recording devices
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Unit resources
Vocabulary display: Musical symbols – Y1
A display version of the vocabulary from the unit Musical symbols.
Knowledge organiser – Music Y1: Musical symbols
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit Musical symbols.
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