St John’s Catholic infant School

MUSIC LONG TERM PLAN

OUR MUSIC INTENT

At St John’s Catholic Infant School, we make music an enjoyable, rich and stimulating learning experience, by encouraging children to participate and perform in a range of musical experiences. As musicians, children experience music during early development w hich helps them learn sounds, meanings of words and vocabulary. We aim to build confidence, nurture and encourage musical development as they develop their musical skills and potential alongside developing a life-long love and appreciation of different music forms.

Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term Autumn 1 ‘Where I Am’ Spring 1 ‘My Amazing Body’ Summer 1 ‘Down On The Farm’ YEAR ONE Autumn 2 ‘Being Famous’ Spring 2 ‘The Adventure Of The Green Ship’ Summer 2 ‘The History Box’

As musicians, children will: As musicians, children will: As musicians, children will: Autumn 1 Spring 1 Summer 1 Unit 1: Hey You! Unit 3: In The Groove Unit 5: Your Imagination Old-School Hip Hop How to be in the groove with different styles of Using your imagination How pulse, rhythm and pitch work music together Summer 2 Spring 2 Unit 6: Reflect, Rewind and Replay Autumn 2 Unit 4: Round and Round This unit consolidates the learning that has Unit 2: Rhythm in the way we walk and Pulse, rhythm and pitch in different styles of occurred during the year. All the learning is banana rap: music focused around revisiting songs and musical Reggae and Hip Hop Style activities, a context for the History of Music and Pulse, rhythm and pitch, rapping, dancing the beginnings of the Language of Music. and singing.

VOCABULARY Unit !: Pulse, rhythm, pitch, rap, Unit 3: Blues, Baroque, Latin, Irish Folk, Funk, Unit 5: Keyboard, drums, bass, pulse, rhythm, improvise, compose, melody, bass guitar, pulse, rhythm, pitch, compose, improvise, pitch, improvise, compose, perform, audience, drums, decks, perform perform, groove imagination

Unit 2: Pulse, rhythm, pitch, rap, melody, Unit 4: Keyboard, bass, guitar, percussion, Unit 6: learning is focused around revisiting the singers, keyboard, bass, guitar, percussion, trumpets, saxophones, pulse, rhythm, pitch, year’s vocabulary and learning trumpets, saxophones, perform improvise, compose, perform, audience

ENHANACEMENTS Harvest Celebration Easter Celebration Strawberry Tea Afternoon Songs & performance Christmas Play Performance Hot Cross Bun Afternoon songs & performance Mince Pie Afternoon Songs & performance

Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term Autumn 1 ‘Lord Lever & Port Sunlight’ Spring 1 ‘Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark’ Summer 1 ‘Lighthouse Keeper’ YEAR TWO Autumn 2 ‘WW1 & WW11’ Spring 2 ‘The Magic Paintbrush’ Summer 2 ‘Pirates versus Mermaids’

As musicians, children will: As musicians, children will: As musicians, children will: Autumn 1: Spring 1 Summer 1 Unit 1; Hands, Feet, Heart Unit 3:I Wanna Play In A Band Unit 5: Friendship Song South Africa and South African music playing together in a band and rock music being friends Autumn 2 Unit 2: Ho Ho Ho (A fun song about Spring 2 Summer 2 Christmas) Unit 4: Zootime Unit 6: Reflect, Rewind and Replay Christmas and having fun! Animals and Reggae music This unit consolidates the learning that has occurred during the year. All the learning is focused around revisiting songs and musical activities, a context for the History of Music and the beginnings of the Language of Music.

VOCABULARY Unit 1: Keyboard, drums, bass, electric Unit 3: Keyboard, drums, bass, electric guitar, Unit 5: Keyboard, drums, bass, glockenspiel, pulse, guitars, saxophone, trumpet, pulse, rock, pulse, rhythm, pitch, improvise, rhythm, pitch, improvise, compose, perform, rhythm, pitch, improvise, compose, compose, perform, audience, melody, audience, melody, dynamics, tempo perform, audience, question and answer, dynamics, tempo melody, dynamics, tempo Unit 6: learning is focused around revisiting the Unit 4: Keyboard, drums, bass, electric guitar, year’s vocabulary and learning Unit 2: Keyboard, bass, guitar, percussion, reggae, pulse, rhythm, pitch, improvise, trumpets, saxophones, pulse, rhythm, compose, perform, audience, melody, pitch, perform, audience, rap, improvise, dynamics, tempo dynamics, tempo

ENHANACEMENTS Harvest Celebration Easter Celebration End of Year Performance – Christmas Play Performance Hot Cross Bun Afternoon songs & Strawberry Tea Afternoon Songs & performance Mince Pie Afternoon Songs & performance performance