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Year 2

Singing together: how singing helps us work together

6 lessons

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  • Creating, composing and improvising
  • Developing our singing voice
  • Music over time and in different places
  • Notating and sharing music

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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.

In this unit, pupils continue their journey of learning why and when we sing. Building on their understanding that songs can change our mood, pupils explore the role of songs in productivity and working together effectively. The call and response nature of many of the songs allows pupils to learn them quickly. Further challenge is provided with a wider range of notes and longer lyrical phrasing. Pupils can consolidate their understanding of pulse, further realising why this is important and how it can be of use. In future units, children will learn how songs are used in communities.

  1. Singing to achieve a task
  2. Singing to help us work in time together
  3. Call and response singing in sea shanties
  4. Playing the pulse to keep in time
  5. Rhythm and beat
  6. Creating an ostinato to help us keep in time

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