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title: "Year 2 - Music - Exploring Pitch"
url: "https://darwenstjames.co.uk/news/2025-05-06-year-2-music-exploring-pitch"
school: "Darwen St James’ C of E Primary Academy"
---

# Year 2 - Music - Exploring Pitch

  ![](https://files.schudio.com/darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy/images/news/Collage_2025-05-06_11_25_05.jpg)   6 May 2025

Year 2's music lesson was exploring pitch by having the children experiment with filling glasses with varying levels of water and then tapping them gently to hear the different sounds produced. Alongside this, they used  xylophones to further investigate high and low notes and how the length of the bars affects the pitch.![](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/images/news/Collage_2025-05-06_11_25_05.jpg)

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