the playing or showing of the steady pulse, like the ticking of a clock

the regular, steady heartbeat of the music

Hickety Tickety Bumblebee - Audio

Marching Feet  - drum beat - video

Hickety Tickety Bumblebee (learn to play)

Sally go Round the Sun (learn the game)

Marching Feet - video  - jump and change directions

Task A - 2. 3.  - Sally Go Round the Sun - adding drum and body percussion

Sally Go Round the Sun - Audio

Se Se Se - video - structure

Fox, Fox (learn the game)

Fox Fox-audio - structure

Hot Potato - video - structure

Fox, Fox - audio - vocal support

Hot Potato - audio

Se Se Se - audio

Warm-ups 

Have you Brought your Singing Voice?

Penguin Song - audio

Let's Warm Up - audio

Keeping a steady beat as we move, sing and play

Music

This unit develops pupil's sense of pulse across a range of different tempi. Pupils internalise phrasing through music and movement games and understand when it is their turn to sing, move or play. They are challenged to notice and respond appropriately to tempo changes.

Music and movement: feeling the pulse and changing the tempo

the regular steady heartbeat of the music

Engine Engine - Bristol

Freedom train

My Journey Song

Marching Feet (steady) 

Sally Go Round the Sun (learn the game) 

Sally Go Round the Sun (steady)

Sally go Round the Sun (slow)

Marching Feet - video

Se Se Se  - (Slow)

Marching feet (slow) 

Marching Feet (fast) 

Se Se Se - video

Se Se Se (steady) 

Sally go Round the Sun (fast) 

Se Se Se - (fast)

Warm-ups

Have you Brought Your Singing Voice?

Alive, Alert, Awake, Enthusiastic

Rubber Chicken

Feeling the pulse in music with a fast or slow tempo

Fox Fox - audio (steady)

Task A Feedback - video Engine Engine

Engine Engine - York

Fox, Fox (fast)

Se Se Se - tempo game - b

Lemon Lime - video - body percussion

Se Se Se - tempo game - c

Lemon Lime - setting a slow tempo

Fox Fox (learn the game) 

Lemon Lime - setting a steady tempo

Lemon Lime - setting a fast tempo

Fox, Fox (slow) 

Se Se Se - tempo game - a

Hickety Tickety Bumblebee (fast)

Hot Potato (steady) 

Hot Potato (slow)

Hickety Tickety Bumblebee (learn the game)

Hickety Tickety Bumblebee (steady)

Hot Potato (fast) 

Hickety Tickety Bumblebee (slow)

Hot Potato (learn the game)

Slowly, Slowly

Choosing a fast or slow tempo for songs, chants and games

Page's train - audio

Check C

Check A

Check B

Task A - Freedom Train (accelerando)

Boom Chicka Boom (with fast tempo)

Task A - Freedom Train

Check 2. C

Check 1. C

Engine Engine - Brighton (changing tempo - accelerando, fast, rallentando) 

Check 2. A

Check 2. B

Task B. 3 - Fox Fox (rallentando) 

Fox, Fox (steady) 

Task B. 2 - Fox Fox (accelerando) 

Marching Feet (accelerando)

Check 1. A

Check 1. B

The Penguin Song

Let's Warm Up 

Responding to tempo changes within a song or piece of music

Se Se Se (learn the game)

Se Se Se (fast) 

Se Se Se (slow) 

Sally Go Round the Sun (learn the game)

Sally Go Round the Sun (steady) 

Sally go Round the Sun (slow) 

Sally Go Round the Sun (fast) 

Hot Potato (learn the game) 

Hot Potato Steady (steady)

Hot Potato (slow) 

Check 1 - Marching Feet

Check 2 - Engine, Engine

Page's Train 

Using tempo to tell a musical story

Music and movement: feeling the pulse and changing the tempo

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These lessons will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.