The Year 2 music programme follows 12 units that all have a cross curricular link to enable application of skills across the entire curriculum. Below is a break down of the units that children will look at each term within their music lessons.

Autumn Term

Ourselves - The children discover ways to use their voices to describe feelings and moods. They create and notate vocal sounds, building to a performance.

Toys - The children move and play to a steady beat and to sound sequences. They learn to control changing tempo as they take a scooter ride.

Our Land - The children explore timbre and texture as they explore descriptive sounds. They listen to, and perform, music inspired by myths.

Our Bodies - The children develop a sense of steady beat through using their own bodies. They respond to music and play rhythm patterns on body percussion and instruments.

Spring Term

Animals - The children link animal movement with pitch movement to help develop understanding and recognition of changing pitch. They interpret pitch line notation using voices and tuned instruments.

Number - The children explore steady beat and rhythm patterns. They play beats and patterns from Renaissance Italy to West Africa and create their own body percussion, voices and instruments.

Story Time - The children are introduced to famous pieces to stimulate composition. The children interpret a storyboard with sound effects, and develop their own ideas using voices and percussion.

Seasons - The children develop understanding of pitch through movement, songs and listening games. They become familiar with pitch shapes and perform them in a variety of musical arrangements.

Summer Term

Weather - The children have opportunities to create descriptive sounds and word rhythms with raps and songs about weather. They create a descriptive class composition using voices and instruments.

Pattern - Using simple notations, the children play, create and combine minibeast rhythms using body percussion and instruments.

Water - The children sing and play a variety of pitch shapes, using movement and ready from scores. They create a class composition which describes the sounds and creatures of a pond.

Travel - The children learn a Tanzanian game song and accompany a travelling song using voices and instruments. They listen to an orchestral piece and improvise their own descriptive ‘theme park’ music