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Key stage 2
Music
concepts develop through our use of threads, which add vertical coherence. Explore free teaching resources for key stage 2, music, covering years 3, 4, 5 and 6. 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 KS2 curriculum was designed in our explainer.
Units (17)
Units released in 2020-22
Resources made during the pandemic to support lockdown learning.
These resources will be removed by the end of the Spring Term 2026.
These resources below were created for lockdown learning during the pandemic and are not designed for classroom teaching. You may want to download these resources to save them and check any links you've saved or shared. See our help article
for more information.
1
Pulse and Metre 1
Year 3
6 lessons
2
Timbre 1
Year 3
6 lessons
3
Rhythm 1
Year 3
4/6 lessons
4
Pitch
Year 3
6 lessons
5
Texture
Year 3
6 lessons
6
Musical processes
Year 3
6 lessons
7
Pulse and Metre 2
Year 4
6 lessons
8
Timbre 2
Year 4
6 lessons
9
Rhythm 2
Year 4
6 lessons
10
Duration
Year 5
6 lessons
11
Timbre 3
Year 5
6 lessons
12
Rhythm 3
Year 5
6 lessons
13
Tonality
Year 5
6 lessons
14
Structure
Year 5
6 lessons
15
Beat, pulse, rhythm, structure
Year 5
7 lessons
16
Metre
Year 6
6 lessons
17
Rhythm 4
Year 6
6 lessons