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Important update!
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:
- Sing in tune and in harmony with others, with developing breath control.
- Explain how a piece of music makes them feel with some use of musical terminology.
- Perform a vocal ostinato in time.
- Listen to other members of their group as they perform.
- Create an ostinato and represent it on paper so that they can remember it.
- Create and perform a piece with a variety of ostinatos.
Suggested prior learning
Rock and roll
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Lessons
Lesson 1: The singing river
Lesson 2: The listening river
Lesson 3: The repeating river
Lesson 4: The percussive river
Lesson 5: The performing river
Key skills
- Recognising the use and
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Key knowledge
To know:
- When you sing
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Key vocabulary
a cappella
dynamics
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Unit resources
Vocabulary display: Changes in pitch, tempo and dynamics (Theme: Rivers)
A display version of the vocabulary from the unit Changes in pitch, tempo and dynamics.
Knowledge organiser: Music – Y4 Changes in pitch, dynamics and tempo (Rivers)
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit "Changes in pitch, dynamics and…
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Cross-curricular opportunities
None.
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Haiku, music and performance (Theme: Hanami festival)
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