Music for Learning - Unit 1
Foundation – Year 6
Music for Learning – Unit 1 provides every teacher with the confidence to deliver engaging, curriculum-aligned music lesson plans. Each lesson builds sequentially on skills, ensuring students’ progress step by step. With structured guides, demo videos and audio support, teachers can focus on teaching while students experience engaging lessons.
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Foundation – Year 6
Starter Lessons
Year Overview
Foundation Year
Year F, Lesson 1
Year F, Lesson 2
Unit Overview
In the ‘Tell Me a Story’ unit, students will learn how stories can be told through music, while exploring their own ways of communicating stories through acting them out, experimenting with musical elements (tempo, dynamics, pitch) and different ways of creating sound with voices, percussion instruments and ukulele. The culminating project will be for students to perform a musical story through song and different instruments.
Learning Objectives
- Sing and move to music.
- Use sounds and actions to tell a story.
- Use percussion instruments to tell a story.
- Make music about the world around us.
- Listen to and tell stories with music.
- Learn how music matches characters in a story.
- Make music to tell a new story.
- Complete a content test and play music stories.
- Perform a music story for an audience.
Lessons, Assessment and Resources
Unit, Lesson and Assessment Information
- 9 Week Unit
- Summative Assessment
Resources
- Lessons x9
- Instructional Teaching Guide
- Student Workbook
- Unit Overview
- Assessments/Progression Indicators
- Professional Learning Modules
Year 1 – Year 2
Years 1-2, Lesson 1
Years 1-2, Lesson 2
Unit Overview
In The Song Factory unit, students will explore how their voices can bring the elements of music to life. They will develop knowledge of key musical elements, including pitch, dynamics, duration and tempo, through analysis and practical work, as well as develop their musicianship in the performance of selected instrumentation (voice and keyboard.) The unit will culminate in a presentation of small group performances where students perform pieces they have learnt and modified.
Learning Objectives
- Understand how low and high sounds are used in music.
- Learn that music is made up of short and long sounds.
- Learn that music is made up of soft and loud sounds.
- Learn how music can be sung with different sounds.
- Learn how to play different sounds on the keyboard.
- Learn how to play more sounds on the keyboard.
- Play music in fast and slow speeds.
- Complete a content test and create a new song.
- Practise and perform our songs for each other.
Lessons, Assessment and Resources
Unit, Lesson and Assessment Information
- 9 Week Unit
- Summative Assessment
Resources
- Lessons x9
- Instructional Teaching Guide
- Student Workbook
- Unit Overview
- Assessments/Progression Indicators
- Professional Learning Modules
Year 3 – Year 4
Years 3-4, Lesson 1
Years 3-4, Lesson 2
Unit Overview
In the ‘Music and the Elements: Earth, Water, Fire and Air’ unit, students will explore how nature has been represented through art for hundreds of years, before taking charge of their creative process to improvise and compose their own responses to nature. They will develop knowledge and understanding of specific musical elements (beat, rhythm, instrumentation, texture and pitch) through analysis and practical work, as well as develop their musicianship in composition and performance on selected instrumentation (voice, percussion). The unit will culminate in a presentation of small group performances where students perform the pieces they have created in response to one of the natural elements: Earth, Water, Fire or Air.
Learning Objectives
- Explore how music can be inspired by nature.
- Create music using water.
- Explore music that is inspired by water.
- Explore music that is inspired by air.
- Explore music that is inspired by fire.
- Use melody and repetition to create our own music.
- Explore music that is inspired by earth.
- Demonstrate our knowledge by completing a content test and planning our final performance inspired by nature.
- Give our final performance inspired by nature.
Lessons, Assessment and Resources
Unit, Lesson and Assessment Information
- 9 Week Unit
- Summative Assessment
Resources
- Lessons x9
- Instructional Teaching Guide
- Student Workbook
- Unit Overview
- Assessments/Progression Indicators
- Professional Learning Modules
Year 5 – Year 6
Years 5-6, Lesson 1
Years 5-6, Lesson 2
Unit Overview
In the Introduction to Jazz Music unit, students will explore the distinctive qualities of jazz music through listening, analysis and performance. They will learn to recognise key elements that define jazz, such as rhythm, melody and expression. Through practical activities, students will develop their skills in performing jazz rhythms and melodies, while also understanding more about writing and reading music.
Learning Objectives
- Explore how music can be inspired by nature.
- Create music using water.
- Explore music that is inspired by water.
- Explore music that is inspired by air.
- Explore music that is inspired by fire.
- Use melody and repetition to create our own music.
- Explore music that is inspired by earth.
- Demonstrate our knowledge by completing a content test and planning our final performance inspired by nature.
- Give our final performance inspired by nature.
Lessons, Assessment and Resources
Unit, Lesson and Assessment Information
- 9 week unit
- Summative Assessment
- Final Performance
Resources
- Lessons x9
- Instructional Teaching Guide
- Student Workbook
- Unit Overview
- Assessments/Progression Indicators
- Professional Learning Modules
Other Units
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Success Criteria
Activating Prior Knowledge
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