Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Move and sing as a team, following the lyrics on the screen.
- Recognise minims, crotchets and quavers often by ear and reliably by sight.
- Perform rhythms accurately from notation and layer them to create a composition.
- Add appropriate sound effects to their performances using untuned percussion.
- Join in with the performances confidently, and reasonably in time and tune.
- Make suggestions for improving their performance.
Suggested prior learning
Creating compositions in response to an animation (Theme: Mountains)
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Lessons
Lesson 1: Here come the Vikings!
Lesson 2: Sing like a Viking
Lesson 3: Viking notation
Lesson 4: Viking battle song
Lesson 5: Perform like a Viking
Key skills
- Understanding that music from
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Key knowledge
- To know that the
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Key vocabulary
composition
melody
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Unit resources
Assessment – Year 3: Developing singing technique (Vikings)
Assessment – Year 3: Developing singing technique (Vikings) Assessment resources for this unit. Use
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Knowledge organiser
Knowledge organiser A pupil-facing summary document, condensing the
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Subject resources
Music: Long-term plans
A suggested order for teaching Music
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National curriculum mapping
National curriculum mapping A full curriculum overview for our
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Music: Pupil progression of skills
Progression document showing how skills and
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Assessment
Assessment An assessment tool for monitoring the
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Equipment list
Equipment list A list of essential and optional
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Key vocabulary
Key vocabulary Vocabulary document that shows key vocabulary
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Curriculum planning
A list of songs, artists, composers
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Music teacher skills videos
A collection of teacher skills videos
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Cross-curricular opportunities
History
‘Pupils should be taught about:
- the Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England to the time of Edward the Confessor’
See 'National curriculum - History key stages 1 and 2'.
Build on the learning
Pentatonic melodies and composition (Theme: Chinese New Year)
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