Year 2 Music
Music lessons in year 2...
By the end of Year 2 children will
Listen and Appraise: Listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music. The children will continue to listen to a variety of musical styles from different times, traditions and composers. They will learn to recognise the sounds of musical instruments and basic features of key musical styles. Discussions will be encouraged using musical language.
Musical Activities: Use their voices expressively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes.
Play tuned and un-tuned instruments musically.
Listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high quality live and recorded music.
Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music.
3. Perform and Share: Use their voices expressively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes.
Play tuned and un-tuned instruments musically.
Autumn Term
Autumn 1 - Call and response (Animals)
Animal Sounds
To create short sounds with varied dynamics that represent an animal.
Sound pattern safari
To copy a short sound pattern.
Call and response
To explore call and response using instruments
Instrumental response
To create sound patterns based on call and response
Dynamics performance
To perform different sound patterns with contrasting dynamics
Autumn 2 - Instruments (Musical storytelling)
Listening for dynamics and tempo
To explore listening and analysing a piece of music in relation to a story.
Sound effects and dynamics
To explore how music and sound effects can tell a story.
Creating a soundscape
To select appropriate sounds to match events, characters and feelings in a story.
Using sound to represent events
To suggest appropriate sounds to represent parts of a story.
Musical story performance
To perform a composition showing changes in tempo and dynamics
Spring Term
Spring 1 - Singing (On this island)
Seaside sounds
To learn a British folk song
Countryside sounds
To practise and perform a song relating to the countryside
City sounds
To practise and perform a song relating to the city.
Structured soundscape
To create symbols to represent sounds
Performing a composition
To develop and perform a musical composition.
Spring 2 - Contrasting dynamics
(Space)
Vocal soundscape
To create a simple soundscape using dynamic changes.
Creatively responding to music
To listen to music and respond creatively, considering how dynamics can be represented.
Comparing music
To compare two pieces of music.
Pitch patterns
To create a short pitch pattern yo represent a planet.
Creating and performing a musical structure.
To perform a pitch pattern representing a planet, using vocal and instrumental sounds and changes in dynamics.
Summer Term
Summer 1 - Structrue (Myths and Legends)
Reading and clapping rhythms
To read and clap a rhythm based on a phrase from a story.
Clapping and writing rhythms.
To hear, write and clap rhythms based on a phrase from a story.
Structure
To use a rhythm in different ways to demonstrate structure.
Compose with a structure
To create a structure using rhythmic patterns.
Rehearse and perform
To perform a group composition
Summer 2 - Pitch (Musical Me)
Exploring pitch patterns
To understand and practise reading different symbols to show pitch.
Singing pitch patterns
To sing and draw pitch patterns
Introducing notation
To read and understand the notation for the song 'Once a man fell in a well'.
Instrumental pitch practise.
To use a tuned percussion instrument to play a song.
Writing musical notation
To complete the notation for a short song using a three-line stave.