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Music at key stages 1 and 2    (Year 5/6)

Unit 20: Stars, hide your fires - Performing together

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About this unit

This unit develops and demonstrates children's ability to take part in a class performance with confidence, expression and control.

In this unit children sing and play a two-part song, play instrumental accompaniments and rehearse and develop musical and performance ideas with understanding of how to achieve a quality class performance. The skills required of the teacher may make this unit more demanding for a class teacher without specialist support. However, the song could be recorded by colleagues, parents or pupils, and this recording used as a means of teaching the song to the rest of the class. In this case, teachers may wish to place a greater emphasis on the descriptive activity included in the final section, 'Bringing it all together'.


Sections in this unit

This unit is divided into sections. Each section contains a sequence of activities with related objectives and outcomes. You can view this unit by moving through the sections or print/download the whole unit.
1. Introduction: what is the song about?
2. Exploration: how can we increase the impact of this song? (1)
3. Exploration: how can we increase the impact of this song? (2)
4. Exploration: how can we increase the impact of this song? (3)
5. Exploration: how can we increase the impact of this song? (4)
6. Bringing it all together