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Please note
In this updated unit, children use bodies and instruments to listen and respond to pieces of music with fast and slow speeds; learn and perform a rhyme and a song focussing on fast and slow. This unit replaces the Year 1 unit Classical music, dynamics and tempo (Theme: Animals), which is permanently available in our archive but is no longer updated in line with curriculum or website developments.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:
- Demonstrate slow and fast with their bodies and voices.
- Demonstrate slow and fast beats while saying a rhyme and using an instrument.
- Perform a song using a singing voice.
- Perform with an instrument.
- Observe others and move, speak, sing and play appropriately.
- Sing in time from memory, with some accuracy.
- Keep a steady pulse.
- Move, speak, sing and play demonstrating slow and fast beats.
Suggested prior learning
Lessons
Lesson 1: Snail and mouse
Lesson 2: Exploring rhyme with snail and mouse
Lesson 3: Singing snail and mouse
Lesson 4: Performing snail and mouse
Lesson 5: The story of snail and mouse
Key skills
Listening and evaluating
- Recognising basic
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Key knowledge
To know:
- That sound can
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Key vocabulary
beat
fast
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Related content
Unit resources
Knowledge organiser – Music Year 1: Tempo (Snail and mouse)
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit Tempo.
Vocabulary display: Tempo – Y1
A display version of the vocabulary from the unit Tempo.
Subject resources
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Cross-curricular opportunities
Physical education
English: Spoken language, Reading – comprehension.