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Key stage 1
Music
concepts develop through our use of threads, which add vertical coherence. Explore free teaching resources for key stage 1, music, covering years 1 and 2. Save hours planning lessons with a slide deck, worksheet, prior knowledge starter and assessment exit quizzes and key vocabulary – all ready for you to teach and adapt for your pupils. You can download lesson and teaching resources, or log in and download units or save units to ‘my library’ – whichever is best for you to plan your music lesson. Read more about how the KS1 curriculum was designed in our explainer.
Music units
New
Brand-new teaching resources, thoughtfully crafted by teachers for classroom needs.
1
Start with singing: finding my singing voice
Year 1
6 lessons
2
Singing together: how singing makes me feel
Year 1
6 lessons
5
Compose and create: high and low melodic responses
Year 1
6 lessons
7
Start with singing: learning through singing games
Year 2
6 lessons
8
Singing together: how singing helps us work together
Year 2
6 lessons
10
Music and movement: using symbols to represent pitch
Year 2
6 lessons
11
Compose and create: improvising with four notes
Year 2
6 lessons
Units released in 2020-22
Resources made during the pandemic to support remote teaching.
1
Pulse
Year 1
4 lessons
2
Timbre
Year 1
6 lessons
3
Rhythm
Year 1
6 lessons
4
Pitch
Year 1
3/6 lessons
5
Contrasts
Year 1
6 lessons
6
Musical devices
Year 1
6 lessons
7
Pulse and Metre
Year 2
5 lessons
8
Tempo, Dynamics, Timbre
Year 2
2 lessons