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
Get startedLessons
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
influence
listen
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Unit resources





Assessment – Year 3: Creating compositions (Mountains)
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Knowledge organiser
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Music: Long-term plans
A suggested order for teaching Music
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National curriculum mapping
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Music: Pupil progression of skills
Progression document showing how skills and
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Assessment
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Equipment list
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Key vocabulary
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Curriculum planning
A list of songs, artists, composers
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Music teacher skills videos
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Cross-curricular opportunities
English
‘Pupils should be taught to:
- draft and write by, in narratives, creating settings, characters and plot’