United by song in the sports arena

Music

Songs uniting a crowd

Celebrating through song

How singing affects our mood

The power of singing together

Singing to affect an audience

This unit investigates the power of music to unite people. Pupils explore how song is used in sacred spaces, sports arenas and live concerts. Pupils study songs with unity as their common theme and use the lyrics to guide an effective, emotive performance.

Singing together: how songs unite us

Depiction of scary, confusing or unsettling events or characters placed in danger, including creation of a scary atmosphere through the use of music and sound.

Depiction or discussion of upsetting content

When we breathe deeply, which part of our body should we notice moving?

Singing together can bring us together - even with strangers. What can we call this?

From which musical does Liverpool Football Club take a line of a song as their motto?

Which planet from Holst's Planets Suite inspired World in Union?

how fast or slow the music is played or sung

the combination of different layers of sound

Match the musical terms to their meaning.

Match the setting to the type of singing that might commonly happen there.

What thing can we all do together to unite people in each of these settings - faith space (e.g. a church), sports arena (e.g. football stadium) and a school assembly?

to take an idea and keep it exactly the same

Musicians are often influenced by other music that has gone before. What does 'influenced' mean in this context?

United by song in the sports arena

Lesson outcome

Content guidance