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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:
- Identify and evaluate the musical features of a song.
- Contribute ideas to their group chorus, suggesting how lines three and four could rhyme.
- Contribute ideas to their group verse, suggesting how lines one and four and five and eight could rhyme.
- Fit an existing melody over a four-chord backing track.
- Create a melody that fits both the lyrics and the four-chord backing track of the chorus, using tuned percussion instruments.
- Record melodies using letter notation.
- Perform the leavers’ song with confidence.
Suggested prior learning
Film music
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Lessons
Lesson 1: A single year
Lesson 2: Writing chorus lyrics
Lesson 3: Writing verse lyrics
Lesson 4: Backing track
Lesson 5: Creating a melody
Lesson 6: The final piece
Key skills
- Recognising and confidently discussing
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Key knowledge
- To know that a
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Key vocabulary
allegro
arrangement
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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
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A device to play leavers’ song on
- Sugar paper ×5
- Permanent marker pens
- Lined paper ×30
- Tuned percussion instruments ×15
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Pupils’ own instruments brought in from home
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Unit resources
Knowledge organiser: Music – Y6 Leaver’s song
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit "Composing and performing a Leavers’…
Vocabulary display: Composing and performing a Leavers’ song
A display version of the vocabulary from the unit Composing and performing a Leavers’ song.
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Cross-curricular opportunities
Nothing relevant in this unit.
