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Singing and moving together

Learning about beat

Learning about rhythm

Recognising pitch changes in our singing games

Singing with pitch accuracy

Bringing it together

In this unit, pupils develop their understanding of pitch, pulse, beat, and rhythm by participating in a variety of singing games. Through playful and interactive songs and movements, pupils will naturally develop their understanding of these musical elements.

Start with singing: learning through singing games

Singing to achieve a task

Singing to help us work in time together

Call and response singing in songs of the sea

Playing the pulse to keep in time

Rhythm and beat

Creating an ostinato to help us keep in time

In this unit, pupils explore how songs are used for work, productivity, and collaboration. It focuses on working songs at sea. Pupils learn that call and response is a structure found in many sea-working songs and that a strong sense of pulse is essential for completing tasks together.

Singing together: how singing helps us work together

Describing the timbre of instruments

Choosing appropriate percussive timbres to represent an animal

Reading graphic scores

Combining rhythm and timbre

Graphic score notation

Ensemble performance from a graphic score

In this unit, pupils consider how timbre and rhythm can be used to represent animals. Pupils listen to Wiseman’s Carnival of the Endangered Animals and compare music that represents various animals. They create short pieces, recording these on graphic scores to represent a chosen animal.

Compose and create: recording our musical ideas using a graphic score

High and low notes

Notating high and low notes on a simplified musical stave

Placing our new higher note on a simplified musical stave

Notating three notes on a simplified musical stave

Placing our new lower note on a simplified musical stave

Notating four notes on a simplified musical stave

This unit uses singing games to introduce pupils to pitch on a three-line simplified stave. Pupils identify the shape of the melodies and, through guided instruction, take dictation of these on the simplified stave, focusing on pitch and syllables but not rhythm.

Music and movement: using symbols to represent pitch

Performing four note tonesets on pitched percussion

Call and response improvisation within a four note toneset

Learning a four note melody on pitched percussion

Reading and playing using simplified notation

Playing within an ABA musical structure

Performing and improvising within an ABA structure

In this unit, pupils use a baking theme to replicate and improvise four note melodies. Pupils read and reorder known rhythm patterns and use these to improvise on pitched percussion within their four note toneset. A final performance in ABA structure is created.

Compose and create: improvising with four notes

Developing pulse and moving in time to the music

Adding body percussion to a song

Building a thicker texture with a chanted ostinato

Building a thicker texture with a sung ostinato

Developing part singing

Performing songs with simple accompaniments

In this unit pupils add simple vocal accompaniments to songs. They learn chanted and sung ostinati, adding these to songs they have learnt. Pupils practise in order to improve and understand the importance of maintaining a steady pulse.

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These lessons will be removed by the end of the Spring Term 2026.