Year 2

Heathrow Primary School, Harmondsworth Lane, Sipson, West Drayton, Middlesex, UB7 0JQ

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Year 2

Autumn 1 – Instruments (Musical Storytelling)

As Musicians, we will be exploring and analysing a piece of music to understand how different musical elements, such as instruments, tempo and dynamics, help convey the story of the three bears. In lesson two we focus on exploring how music and sound effects tell a story. The next lesson, we are exploring tempo and dynamics to tell the familiar story of Red Riding Hood. Working in groups, we plan how to tell the story of Jack and the Beanstalk through music, using our understanding of dynamics and tempo. In our final lesson, we are performing musical versions of Jack and the Beanstalk.

Summer 1 – Myths and Legends

As Musicians, we have created rhythms and put them into an order, or structure, to tell the story of St George and the Dragon. We then listened to a piece of music about the legend of King Arthur and identify the structure of the piece. We have also identified different layers within a piece of music, based on the myth of Orpheus and Euridice, and then show these layers on a graphic score. Working in groups, we composed a piece of music with a given structure and create a written score for our piece. Finally, we rehearsed and performed their compositions from the previous lesson, learning to perform as a group and to follow our graphic scores accurately.