This Music video introduces Year 6 pupils to a range of songwriting techniques and explores how lyrics can communicate ideas, emotions and messages. It explains how songwriters use repetition, rhyme, emotive language and metaphors to make their words memorable, meaningful and engaging for listeners.

The lesson examines examples of these techniques in popular songs, helping children understand how carefully chosen words can inspire, tell stories and express opinions. Pupils learn how repetition can help lyrics stick in our minds, how rhyme supports flow and structure and how emotive language and metaphors create powerful images and emotional connections.

This video encourages children to listen critically to song lyrics, considering the messages songwriters communicate and the techniques they use to influence how listeners think and feel.

This video is part of Kapow Primary’s Music videos, which support teachers in developing confidence and subject knowledge when helping children explore songwriting, lyric writing and musical expression.

Music, Year 6, Songs that speak: Lyrics and messages, Lesson 1: How do lyrics communicate a message?