Music

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Spring 1

Spring 2

Summer 1

Summer 2

Year 1

Pulse and Rhythm

• use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes
• play tuned and untuned instruments musically

(Rhythm games; -singing,

-body percussion,

-clapping games,

-read rhythmic

music notation, 

Use untuned

percussion instruments

Harvest performance)

Pulse and Rhythm Continued …

(Learn songs ,

Learn tuned and untuned percussion,

Christmas Nativity)

The Elements of Music and Glockenspiels

• use voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes 
• play tuned and untuned instruments musically

(Introduction to the elements of music,

Develop awareness of pitch, volume, respond to and explore changes in tempo, copy back rhythms, simple improvisation,

Singing and playing to a common pulse. )

Listening, Appraising and The Orchestra

•  listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music 
• experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music

(Centred around Prokofiev’s ‘Peter and The Wolf’. 

Learn to visually and aurally identify instruments of the orchestra, and families of instruments,

Develop compositional skills.)

Composition and Performance

• use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes 
• play tuned and untuned instruments musically
•  listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music 
• experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music

(Revisit and consolidate the elements of music,

Compose,  notate and perform their composition)

Year 2

Pulse and Rhythm

• use voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes
• play tuned and untuned instruments musically

(Rhythm games; -singing,

-body percussion,

-clapping games,

-read rhythmic

music notation, 

Use untuned

percussion instruments

Harvest performance)

Pulse and Rhythm Continued …

(Learn songs ,

Learn tuned and untuned percussion,

Christmas Nativity)

The Elements of Music

• use voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes 
• play tuned and untuned instruments musically

(Introduction to the elements of music,

Develop awareness of pitch, volume, respond to and explore changes in tempo, copy back rhythms, simple improvisation,

Singing and playing to a common pulse. )

Pitch - Singing, Glockenspiels and Boomwhackers

• use voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes  *play tuned and untuned instruments musically
• listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music 
• experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music

(Learn about pitch, high and low sounds, the stave, written notation,

Use skills to play tuned instruments,

Introduction to different forms of music,

Introduction to the glockenspiel.)

Listening and Appraising - Carnival of the Animals

• use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes  *play tuned and untuned instruments musically
• listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music 
• experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music

Introduction to orchestral instruments, Identify ‘families’ of instruments-audibly and visually,

Manipulation of the elements of music.)

Appraising and Composing

• use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes  *play tuned and untuned instruments musically
•  listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music 
• experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music

(Music of Africa.

Build on the skills from previous terms;

-use tuned and untuned percussion,

-sing a traditional African call and response song,

-represent animals through use of instruments and voice, -create own rhythms)

Year 3

Pulse and Rhythm

• play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression 
• improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music
• listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory 
• use and understand staff and other musical notations

(Standard rhythmic notation and graphic notation, rhythm games, tuned and untuned percussion, Harvest and Christmas songs for performances)

Pitch and Melody

• play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression 
• improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music
• listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory 
• use and understand staff and other musical notations

(Reading pitched notation, playing tuned percussion, and introduction to the  recorder)

Graphic Scores and Musical Patterns

• play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression 
• improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music
• listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory 
• use and understand staff and other musical notations
• appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composer musicians  
• develop an understanding of the history of music.

(Little Train of the Caipira, Graphic score, repeating patterns using body percussion and vocal sounds, activities and composition based on the theme of machines.)

Descriptive Music

• play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression 
• improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music
• listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory 
• use and understand staff and other musical notations
• appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians 
• develop an understanding of the history of music.

(Carnival of the Animals, listening and appraising,  composing to stimulus of animals)

Year 4

Pulse and Rhythm

• play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression 
• improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music
• listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory 
• use and understand staff and other musical notations

(Standard rhythmic notation and graphic scores, rhythm games, playing tuned and untuned percussion, Harvest and Christmas songs for performance)

Pitch and Melody

• play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression 
• improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music
• listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory 
• use and understand staff and other musical notations

(Reading pitched notation, playing tuned percussion, and ocarina)

Textures, Harmony and Baroque Period

• play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression 
• improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music
• listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory 
• use and understand staff and other musical notations
• appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians 
• develop an understanding of the history of music.

(Baroque period, Vivaldi - Four Seasons, create a class and a group composition, programme music.)

Descriptive Music

• play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression 
• improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music
• listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory 
• use and understand staff and other musical notations
• appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians 
• develop an understanding of the history of music.

(The Planet Suite listening and appraising, ostinato composition)

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Year 5

Pulse and Rhythm

• play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression 
• improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music
• listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory 
• use and understand staff and other musical notations

(Standard rhythmic notation and graphic scores, rhythm games, playing tuned and untuned percussion, chair drumming, Harvest and Christmas songs for performance)

Pitch and Melody

• Play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression 
• improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music
• listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory 
• use and understand staff and other musical notations

(Reading pitched notation, playing tuned percussion, introduction to the keyboard)

The Blues

• play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression 
• improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music
• listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory 
• use and understand staff and other musical notations
• appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians 
• develop an understanding of the history of music.

(Bass lines, chords as a harmonic foundation, improvisation, 12 bar blues, walking bass line, history of the blues)

The Orchestra

• play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression 
• improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music
• listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory 
• use and understand staff and other musical notations
• appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians 
• develop an understanding of the history of music.

(Instruments and families of instruments, sections of the orchestra, The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra listening and appraising)

Year 6

Pulse and Rhythm

• play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression 
• improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music
• listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory 
• use and understand staff and other musical notations

(Standard rhythmic notation and graphic scores, rhythm games, playing tuned and untuned percussion, Samba, Harvest and Christmas songs for performance)

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Pitch and Melody

• Play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression 
• improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music
• listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory 
• use and understand staff and other musical notations

(Reading pitched notation,chords,  playing tuned percussion, keyboard and ukulele)

Programme and Film Music

• play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression 
• improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music
• listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory 
• use and understand staff and other musical notations
• appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians 
• develop an understanding of the history of music.

(Telling a story through music, orchestral instruments, compose to a storyboard)

Musical Theatre

• play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression 
• improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music
• listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory 
• use and understand staff and other musical notations
• appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians 
• develop an understanding of the history of music.

(Singing in parts, different voices - SATB, different styles of musicals, history from opera to present day)