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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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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
- Sugar paper ×5
- Laptops/tablets ×15
- Percussion instruments ×30
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Cross-curricular opportunities
None.
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Haiku, music and performance (Theme: Hanami festival)
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