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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Sing, play and follow instructions to perform as a group.
- Describe music using simple musical vocabulary.
- Explore multiple ways of making the same sound.
- Represent the same sound in different ways.
- Describe how they have adapted a sound using musical vocabulary.
- Contribute musically to a final performance.
- Create a piece that clearly represents a particular environment.
- Extend a piece of music so that it represents three distinct environments.
Suggested prior learning
Lessons
Lesson 1: British seaside sounds
Lesson 2: Countryside sounds
Lesson 3: Sounds of the city
Lesson 4: Structured soundscape
Lesson 5: Journey through Britain
Key skills
- Listening to and recognising
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Key knowledge
- To know that folk
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Key vocabulary
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Unit resources
Knowledge organiser – Music Y2: On this island (British folk music)
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit.
Vocabulary display: On this island: British songs and sounds
A display version of the key vocabulary from the On this island: British songs and sounds unit.
Cross-curricular opportunities
Geography: Locational Knowledge
English: Spoken Language