Important
This unit has been updated to reflect Kapow Primary’s revised Music progression. The lesson content will be published by September 2026.
Note: If curriculum time is limited, this unit may be replaced with Music, Instrumental lessons, Unit 1: South Africa. See Music: Instrumental scheme for more information.
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Copy body percussion patterns while maintaining a steady beat.
- Create their own body percussion patterns and perform them to a steady beat.
- Recognise crotchets, paired quavers and crotchet rests and say how many beats they are worth.
- Create and play a rhythm that uses crotchets, paired quavers and crotchet rests.
- Recall the note lengths of crotchets, paired quavers, crotchet rests and minims.
- Begin to maintain a rhythm that uses crotchets, paired quavers, crotchet rests and minims while hearing other rhythms.
- Create and notate a four-beat rhythm using notes and rests accurately.
- Check a rhythm adds up to four beats using note values.
- Perform confidently as part of a group performance while maintaining a steady beat.
- Perform their rhythm as part of a group while other rhythms are being played.
Prior learning
Mountain melodies: Steps and leaps
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Key skills
Creating sound
- Using correct technique
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Key knowledge
Notation
To know that:
- the shape
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Key vocabulary
beat (Y2)
crotchet (Y3)
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Unit resources
Knowledge organiser: Music Y3 – Reading rhythms: Patterns and layers
Vocabulary display – Music Y3: Reading rhythms: Patterns and layers
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