Au 2 | Exploring Rhythm 1: Playing and Copying

In the second term of Year 1, the focus shifts to exploring rhythm through hands-on activities involving playing and copying rhythms. This unit corresponds with the curriculum’s goal of building rhythmic skills. Pupils learn to replicate rhythms, enhancing their rhythmic accuracy and preparing them to engage in rhythmic improvisation and ensemble playing in the coming years.

• Follow visual directions (e.g. start, stop, loud, quiet) and musical cues while singing.
• Participate in basic call-and-response songs to control vocal pitch and accuracy.
• Mimic short rhythmic patterns accurately when led by the teacher.
• Begin to recognise rhythmic notation symbols like crotchets and quavers, via graphic notation, dot notation and stick notation.

• Introduce the unit
• Warm up
• Core song (sm/sml)
• Call and response song/rhyme
• Listening (live/recorded)
• Rhythm (copycat)
• Other song (do-so/do-la)
• Goodbye song