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Children experience music in a variety of ways. Weekly lessons in develop skills and examine the elements of music. While all children in experience a range of listening, composing and performing activities, in Key Stage 2 there is a a greater emphasis on listening and performing. In both cases the work is supplemented with units from ‘Music Express’ a commercial scheme.
Specialist music staff visits the school to teach brass and percussion. In addition to our weekly ‘Worship in Song’ children are selected across the key stage to sing in the school choir.
Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity. A high quality music education should engage and inspire pupils to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians, and so increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement. As pupils progress, they should develop a critical engagement with music, allowing them to compose, and to listen with discrimination to the best in the musical canon.
The national curriculum for music aims to ensure that all pupils:
By the end of each key stage, pupils are expected to know, apply and understand the matters, skills and processes specified in the relevant programme of study.
KS1 Pupils should be taught about:
Pupils should be taught to:
Skills for the Music Curriculum KS1 | Year 1 & 2 |
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To perform |
• Take part in singing, accurately following the melody. |
To compose |
• Create a sequence of long and short sounds. |
To transcribe |
• Use symbols to represent a composition and use them to help with a performance. |
To describe music |
• Identify the beat of a tune. |
KS2 Pupils should be taught to sing and play musically with increasing confidence and control. They should develop an understanding of musical composition, organising and manipulating ideas within musical structures and reproducing sounds from aural memory.
Pupils should be taught to:
Pupils should be taught to:
Skills for the Music Curriculum KS2 | Year 3 & Year 4 | Year 5 & Year 6 |
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To perform |
• Sing from memory with accurate pitch. |
• Sing or play from memory with confidence. |
To compose |
• Compose and perform melodic songs. |
• Create songs with verses and a chorus. |
To transcribe |
• Devise non-standard symbols to indicate when to play and rest. |
• Use the standard musical notation of crotchet, minim and semibreve to indicate how many beats to play. |
To describe music |
• Use the terms: duration, timbre, pitch, beat, tempo, texture and use of silence to describe music. |
• Choose from a wide range of musical vocabulary to accurately describe and appraise music including:
• Describe how lyrics often reflect the cultural context of music and have social meaning. |
Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 | |
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F2 |
Songs linked to topic – using Singup |
G.Gregory |
Songs linked to topic – using Singup |
G.Gregory |
Songs linked to topic – using Singup |
Songs linked to topic – using Singup |
Y1 |
LCP Unit 1 – Ongoing Skills |
G.Gregory |
LCP Unit 2 – Sounds interesting: Exploring |
G.Gregory |
G.Gregory |
LCP unit 3 – Feel the Pulse: Exploring pulse and rhythm |
Y2 |
LCP Unit 1 – Ongoing Skills |
G.Gregory |
LCP Unit 2 – Sounds interesting: Exploring |
G.Gregory |
G.Gregory |
LCP unit 3 – Feel the Pulse: Exploring pulse and rhythm |
Y3 |
WIDER OPPS - JSax (as provided by Edsential) All four elements to be included within lessons with Carolyn Storer. |
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Y4 |
G. Gregory Introduction to ukuleles. Chn already have good knowledge of musical notation, having learnt JSax last year – build on this. |
Perform – Christmas performance songs – focus on building on all performance skills |
G.Gregory |
G.Gregory |
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Y5 |
G. Gregory – ukeleles |
Peace Proms – performance of song |
G. Gregory – Peace Proms performance |
Composition using technology |
G. Gregory – Samba band |
Making a band – putting to practice all our skills – different instruments and voice and composition |
Y6 |
G. Gregory - ukeleles |
Perform – Christmas performance songs – focus on building on all performance skills |
G. Gregory – composition using technology |
G. Gregory |
All classes are to receive at least 3 half terms of teaching from a music specialist – with Gareth Gregory from Woodchurch High School providing quality teaching to all classes except Year 3, who will receive Wider Opps all year. Lesson blocks should have a main focus but incorporate all the inter-related dimensions of music – ie. the focus may be composition, but through doing this, all the other aspects of music - performance, transcription, explanation – will be covered too. Choir and school band will continue to run each week, with children taking part in the Peace Proms and Young Voices. Group and individual instrumental lessons will continue to be offered.