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City Life

This music scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to practise describing, composing and playing different sounds using high and low pitches to represent vehicles and locations as part of a city location. The class can explain how to play percussion instruments to produce sounds at high and low pitches.

Practise describing, composing and playing different sounds using high and low pitches to represent vehicles and locations as part of a city location

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Lesson One : Vehicle Sounds

Identify, describe and sort some of the different sounds that might be heard in a city into groups by their musical pitches for high and low

Lesson Two : Buses

Identify, describe and perform some of the special sounds with high or low pitches that can represent travelling on a bus to different places found around a city

Lesson Three : Emergency Vehicles

Select, describe and represent some of the different sounds of emergency vehicles that might be heard in a city that use high and low pitch sounds

Lesson Four : Taxis

Identify and test different ways of changing the pitch of a selection of percussion instruments to represent some of the vehicles that might be travelling around a city

Lesson Five : Talking and Chatting

Identify and model how to combine a range of different high and low pitched sounds to represent some of the conversations that might be made between people in a city

Lesson Six : City Journey

Compose and perform a musical composition using high and low pitched sounds to represent a range of special locations that can be visited in a city

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