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Musical Contexts Primary/KS2 Music Units

The 10 Musical Contexts Primary/KS2 Music Units included within the 'full site subscription' are packed full of exciting and engaging cross-curricular topic-themed music-making activities for the Primary Music Classroom - ideal for specialist or non-specialist Music Teachers. 

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Each 'fully-resourced' unit comes with resources, tasks and activities to supplement:

  • Playing: Singing and Performing

  • Creating: Composing and Improvising

  • Critical Engagement: Listening and Appraising

These include: Teacher Schemes of Work and Lesson Plans, Worksheets, Starter and Plenary Activities, Songs, Scores and all supporting Media Files.​

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Further information and samples from each of the Musical Contexts Primary/KS2 Music Units can be seen by hovering over the unit images below.

Each of the 10 units is available to download via a 'one click download' to 'full site subscribers' from the download links below and each unit will download as a complete .zip file.

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New and newly revised and updated fully-resourced Primary Music units, presented in 'easier to navigate' formats are available within the Primary Music section of the Shop & Add-On Extras area.  These are not included within the 'full site subscription'.

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Sci/Geog/Nature

Water Music

Exploring Melodic Shape and Dynamics through music inspired by Water, The Water Cycle, Rivers and Seas.

Distant Rainstorm
Sci/Geog/Nature

Weather & Seasons

Exploring Weather Sounds, Textures and Harmony, Baroque Music and Vivaldi's The Four Seasons and Storm Music.

Fish flock
Sci/Geog/Nature

Animal Crackers

Exploring Birdsong, Descriptive Programme Music, a musical Aquarium, Peter and the Wolf and The Carnival of the Animals.

Primary Music Water Music

Water Music

Full Teacher Scheme of Work and Lesson Plans

Excellent cross-curricular links with primary topics of Rivers, Seas and The Water Cycle.

All Musical Contexts Primary Music units come 'fully-resourced'. 

Primary Music Animal Crackers

Animal Crackers

Full Teacher Scheme of Work and Lesson Plans

Excellent cross-curricular links with Birds, Sea life, Zoos and Animal Habitats 

All Musical Contexts Primary Music units come 'fully-resourced'. 

Primary Music Weather & Seasons

Weather and Seasons

Full Teacher Scheme of Work and Lesson Plans

Excellent cross-curricular links with the Weather, Storms and The Four Seasons. 

All Musical Contexts Primary Music units come 'fully-resourced'. 

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History

Ancient Egypt

Exploring Dynamics, Triple Time, Texture Pyramids and The Harmonic Minor Scale through a range of Egyptian-inspired music-making activities.

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History

Ancient Greece

Exploring Triple Time, The Pentatonic Scale, Greek Gods Leitmotifs, Greek Plate Notation and 'The Myth of Perseus and Medusa' to music.

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History

The Victorians

Exploring Melodic Shape and Pitch in Victorian Street Cries, Victorian Musical Inventions and Gadgets, Victorian Music Hall and The French Can-Can Polka.

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Ancient Egypt

Full Unit Overview and Lesson Plans

Excellent cross-curricular links with The Egyptians through a range of Egyptian-inspired starting points and stimuli.

All Musical Contexts Primary Music units come 'fully-resourced'. 

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Ancient Greece

Full Teacher Scheme of Work and Lesson Plans

Excellent cross-curricular links with The Greeks,

The Gods and Greek Myths through a

range of Greek-inspired starting points and stimuli.

All Musical Contexts Primary Music units come 'fully-resourced'. 

Primary Music Victorians

The Victorians

Full Teacher Scheme of Work and Lesson Plans

Excellent cross-curricular links with The Victorians.

Includes exploration of Victorian Musical Gadgets.

All Musical Contexts Primary Music units come 'fully-resourced'. 

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Science/Tech

Machine Music

Exploring Cyclic Musical  Patterns, Graphic Scores, Factory, Train and Video Game Sounds.

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History

Britain Since 1930

Exploring Songs and Music from WWII, Melodic Shape and Movement, The Chromatic Scale and Swing and Big Bands.

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History

The Tudors

Exploring Tudor Dance Music, Drones, Tudor Musical Instruments, Madrigals and a Tudor Banquet-Concert.

Primary Music Machine Music

Machine Music

Full Teacher Scheme of Work and Lesson Plans

Excellent cross-curricular links with Machines, Factories, Industry, Manufacturing, Travel and Transport and Video Games.

All Musical Contexts Primary Music units come 'fully-resourced'. 

Primary Music Britain Since 1930

Britain Since 1930

Full Teacher Scheme of Work and Lesson Plans

Excellent cross-curricular links with the 1930's and 1940's, Music and War and World War II.

All Musical Contexts Primary Music units come 'fully-resourced'. 

Primary Music The Tudors

The Tudors

Full Teacher Scheme of Work and Lesson Plans

Excellent cross-curricular links with The Tudors including songs, dancing and a "Class Tudor Banquet Concert".

All Musical Contexts Primary Music units come 'fully-resourced'. 

Planet and Moon
Science/Tech

Journey into Space

Exploring Descriptive Programme Music, Holst's "The Planets", Musical Planet Soundscapes and a class 'Journey into Space'.

Primary Music Journey Into Space

Journey Into Space

Full Teacher Scheme of Work and Lesson Plans

Excellent cross-curricular links with The Planets, The Solar System and Space Exploration.

All Musical Contexts Primary Music units come 'fully-resourced'. 

Primary Music Water Music Scheme of Work

Water Music

Full Teacher Scheme of Work and Lesson Plans

Excellent cross-curricular links with primary topics of Rivers, Seas and The Water Cycle.

All Musical Contexts Primary Music units come 'fully-resourced'. 

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