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The Key stage 2 Music units have been updated for 2026–2027. Both updated and previous versions will remain available, allowing flexibility to choose between them.
Explore the Music, Long-term plan for 2026–2027 to preview updated units. Additional units will be added as they become available.
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Verbalise how the music makes them feel.
- Create actions or movements appropriate to each section of a piece of music.
- Play in time and with an awareness of other pupils’ parts, giving some thought to dynamics.
- Play melodies and rhythms which represent the section of animation they are accompanying.
Suggested prior learning
Ballads
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Lessons
Lesson 1: Telling stories through music
Lesson 2: Creating a soundscape
Lesson 3: Story sound effects
Lesson 4: Adding rhythm
Lesson 5: Musical mountain
Key skills
- Discussing the stylistic features
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Key knowledge
- To understand that the
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Key vocabulary
atmosphere
compose
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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
- Tuned percussion instruments ×15
- Untuned percussion instruments ×15
- Digital device (internet-enabled) ×15
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Unit resources
Knowledge organiser – Music Y3: Creating compositions in response to an animation (Mountains)
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit Creating compositions in response to…
Vocabulary display – Music Y3: Creating compositions in response to an animation
A display version of the vocabulary from the unit Creating compositions in response to an animation.
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Cross-curricular opportunities
English
‘Pupils should be taught to:
- draft and write by, in narratives, creating settings, characters and plot’
Build on the learning
Developing singing technique (Theme: the Vikings)
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