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A Music Curriculum

Music Overview

Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2

Year 1 Ourselves Animals Machines Our School Story Time Travel

Number Weather Seasons Pattern Our Bodies Water

Year 2 Ourselves Our Land Animals Story Time Weather Water

Toys Our Bodies Number Seasons Pattern Travel

Year 3 Environment Sounds China In the Past Human Body Ancient Worlds

Building Time Singing French Poetry Communication Food and drink

Year 4 Poetry Sounds Building Ancient Worlds Communication In the Past

Environment Recycling Around the Food and World Singing Spanish Time Drink

Year 5 Our Solar System Life Cycles Keeping At the Movies Celebration Community Healthy

World Unite Journeys Growth Roots Class Awards Moving On Year 6

Year 1 ULUM

Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term Ourselves Animals Machines Our School Story Time Travel

Number Weather Seasons Pattern Our Bodies Water

Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer Summer 2 1 Exploring Pitch Beat Exploring Exploring Performance Musical sounds sounds sounds Focus Exploring Beat sounds Pitch Beat Beat Pitch Create, respond Understand Play percussion Sing a song Rehearse and Combine voices to, place and (recognise) pitch: instruments at together as a perform a rap and movement to Key Skills change vocal make high and low different speeds group. with sound perform a chant sounds. vocal sounds Sing a (tempi). Create a effects using and a song. Explore, create song with contrasting Play and control soundscape using voices. Create, play and and place vocal high and low changes in instruments. Rehearse and combine simple and body melodies. tempo. Explore different perform a word rhythms. percussion Explore and develop sound sources chant/rap with sounds. an understanding of Identify changes and materials. sound effects Use voices to pitch using the voice in pitch and Create a using create descriptive Learn to play and body respond to them soundscape using instruments. sounds. percussion with movements with movement. instruments as Understand how Use instruments to control (e.g. Listen in detail to part of a song music can tell a create descriptive changing Control vocal a piece of performance. story. sounds. dynamics). dynamics, duration orchestral music Play fast, slow, Understand musical Identify and keep and timbre. (e.g. identify Explore sounds on loud, and quiet structure by a steady beat Explore and control instruments). instruments and sounds on listening and using instruments. dynamics, duration, Relate pitch find different percussion responding through Recognise and and timbre with changes to ways to vary their instruments. movement. respond to instruments. graphic symbols sound. Create a picture in changes in Identify a sequence and perform Identify metre by Respond to sound. tempo in music of sounds (structure) pitch changes recognising its change of in a piece of music. vocally. pattern. mood in a piece Respond to music Explore sounds on of music with a through movement instruments and slow and fast Explore and control find different steady beat. dynamics (volume), ways to vary their Identify a duration, and timbre sound repeated with voices, body rhythm pattern. percussion, and Invent and Instruments. perform new Improvise descriptive rhythms to a music. steady beat. Key Pitch, dynamics, High, low, pitch, Beat, rhythm, Timbre, rustle, Tempo - fast, Steady beat, tempo, beat duration - long/short tempo - fast/slow, scrunch, tear, slow, dynamics - dynamics, pitch, Vocabulary Dynamics, dynamics - tap, rub, loud, quiet, tempo, rhythm, loud/quiet, loud/quiet, dynamics - timbre, beat, loud/quiet louder/quieter louder/quieter. loud/quiet, tempo, timbre - louder/quieter timbre, rhythm, Pitch - high/low, duration - spooky, scary, timbre – splash, tempo higher/lower long/short bright, cheery, ripple, crash, step, leap, slide, Texture, beat, rhythm tempo – fast/slow, falling/rising metre, pitch faster/slower, glissando (slide), pitch, steps, jumps Resources A selection of Triangle, , Shakers, Wastepaper bins, Maracas, Claves, finger hand-held wind chimes, , , scrapers, cups, pencil pots, claves, wood , scrapers, percussion , guiro, chimes. building blocks, blocks, guiros shakers, instruments eg claves, wood block, A selection of recording (scrapers), shakers, hand drums, , cymbals, hand-held devices. cymbals, plastic , jingles, claves shakers, wood and percussion A selection of water bottle, drums, cymbals, metal sounds. instruments instruments Straw. bars

Year 2

Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term Ourselves Our Land Animals Story Time Weather Water

Toys Our Bodies Number Seasons Pattern Travel

Autumn Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2 1 Musical Exploring Exploring Pitch Exploring Exploring Pitch Focus sound sounds sounds sounds Beat Beat Beat Pitch Beat Performance Develop the Identify ways of Play pitch lines on Explore voices to Perform a Understand pitch use of vocal producing sounds tuned percussion. create descriptive rhythmic chant through singing, Key Skills sounds to (e.g. shake, strike, Understand and musical effects. and play an movement, and note express feelings. pluck) perform rising and Combine sounds independent names. Notate pitch Match descriptive falling pitch to create a rhythm pattern Explore and develop shape and sounds to images. direction. musical effect in accompaniment. an understanding of duration using Explore timbre and Read and write response to visual Perform an pitch using simple line texture to simple pitch line stimuli. updated version percussion graphics. understand how notation. of a traditional instruments. Understand the sounds can be Combine pitch Sing with nursery rhyme with structure of call descriptive. changes with expression, a rap section. Prepare and improve and response changes in other paying attention Listen in detail to a a performance using songs. Chant and sing in elements/dimensions. to the pitch piece of orchestral movement, voice two parts while shape of the music (e.g. identify and percussion. Mark beats playing a steady Perform a steady melody. how it depicts a Use instruments within a four- beat. beat and simple Accompany a season). expressively in beat metre. Listen to and repeat rhythms using song with vocal, Compose music to response to visual rhythmic patterns on movement, body percussion illustrate a story. stimuli. body percussion and percussion, and and instrumental Listen, describe and instruments. body percussion. ostinato. Perform and respond to Understand and Identify rising and create simple contemporary differentiate falling pitch three- and four- orchestral music. between beat and beat rhythms using Understand and play rhythm. a simple score. from simple notation Explore different ways to organise music Key Pitch, solo, Tempo, dynamics, Beat, pitch, notation, Timbre, texture, Duration, rhythm, Pitch, melody, score, duet, duration, beat, rhythm, drone, accompaniment, dynamics, tempo, ostinato, timbre, duration, Vocabulary texture, score, melody, duration, rhythm, dynamics, duration, pitch, accompaniment, dynamics, glissando, call and texture, timbre, ostinato, score, structure, melody, rhythm pattern, conductor, beat, response, texture, ostinato, notation rhythm, beat, beat, dynamics, rhythm, rhythm, beat, score, internalising, score, ostinato, tempo, timbre, accompaniment, metre, tempo rhythm pattern accompaniment, texture, structure, tempo, ostinato, arrangement metre, score improvisation Resources A selection of Home-made water A selection of tuned A selection of Three sets of un- A selection of tuned tuned and un- rattles and shakers, instruments, eg percussion tuned percussion tuned pebbles, selection of swanee instruments, eg percussion instruments – notes percussion untuned instruments, whistle, sleigh bells, instruments, eg C D E F G C’ tuned percussion - , two-tone tambourines, A selection of notes D E F G A Four sets of hand- wood block, guiro drums, wood untuned Variety of sounds held percussion, eg (scraper), blocks. Instruments, and instruments, drums, claves tambourine, A selection of - notes metal tray, tubes, or chopsticks, woodblocks and percussion C D E F spoons, whirly tubes, shakers, finger other sound Instruments. G A B C’ tree, triangles, cymbals or bells makers A small number of scrapers, Indian bells, chime bar, cymbals, untuned rain sticks, thumb piano, bag of Tuned percussion percussion tambourines, dry leaves, water, – notes C Eb F G instruments, eg cymbal, drums, rattle, rainstick, shakers, claves, claves, shakers , guiros, sandpaper, triangle. finger cymbals ukulele

Year 3

Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term Environment Sounds China In the Past Human Body Ancient Worlds

Building Poetry Time Singing Communicatio French Food and n drink

Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2 Musical Composition Exploring Pitch Pitch Structure Structure Focus sounds Beat Performance Beat Composition Pitch Performance Sing in two-part Learn a traditional Perform a Understand and Sing in two parts Perform a round harmony. Caribbean song. pentatonic song use pitch notations. (two different in three parts. Key Skills Accompany a song Listen to and learn with tuned and un- Read simple rhythm melodies) with Arrange an with a melodic about Hindustani tuned notation. movements and accompaniment ostinato on tuned classical music. accompaniment. Listen to and learn percussion. with attention to percussion Learn how sounds Use graphic about a medieval Understand and balance and Select descriptive are produced notation with the antiphon. perform binary musical effect. sounds to accompany and how pentatonic scale Listen to, learn form. Explore musical a poem. instruments are Understand the about, play and phrases, melodic Choose different classified. pentatonic scale. dance to Tudor Develop a song imitation and timbres to make an Listen to and learn dance music. by choosing lyrics rounds. accompaniment. Improvise about traditional and structure. Learn about an Learn about ternary descriptive music. Chinese music Copy and create a Recognise pitch instrument from form. Identify a wide range of shapes. Ancient Greece. sequence of Improvise to an vocal sounds to Read graphic Layer rhythms using sounds (structure) ostinato incorporate into a notation to play Explore simple un-tuned percussion in a piece of accompaniment. song. a melody on accompaniment instruments. music. Identify the metre in Create and tuned s using beat and Make choices about a piece of music. perform from a instruments. rhythm patterns. musical structure. Recognise rhythm symbol score. Use a score and Understand how music patterns in staff combine sounds can be organised in notation. to create sequences and layers. Listen to and learn different musical about a Romantic textures. piece of music. Key Ternary, rondo, chorus, Aerophone, pitch, Chordophone, Pitch, drone, Call and Ostinato, verse, rhythm, phrase, phrase, duration pentatonic, pitch, notation, stave, response, beat, dynamics, echo, Vocabulary soundscape, pitch idiophone, call Glissando, beat, crotchet, quaver, rhythm, melody, sequence, pitch, Drone, tempo, and response, off- metre, ostinato, dynamics, beat, binary form, round, beat, dynamics, expression, beat, rhythm , dynamics, rhythm, timbre, tempo, mood, rhythm, tempo timbre, ostinato, beat , chordophone, rhythm duration, glissando dynamics, drone sequence, layer score verse, chorus, phrase, drone, texture, tempo, expression, dynamics, Ternary, metre, interlude, coda hocket A selection of Boomwhackers, Sets of tuned Chime bars – notes A selection of Xylophones, instruments or cardboard instruments, eg F G A C D E F wooden chime bars – Resources sound makers. tubes or plastic chime bars, • Tuned instruments instruments and notes D E F G A B Tuned percussion – plumbing, tubes xylophones – eg recorders, sound makers, c notes D G A of the same notes C D E G A tambours, A tuned Bass xylophones – Drone instruments – diameter Untuned selection of instruments, eg notes D A note C, metal Tuned percussion percussion, eg untuned xylophone, Wind chimes, instruments, scrapers, instruments notes shakers, cymbals, percussion chime bars – cymbals and soft shakers and wooden C F, D E F# G, wood blocks, Indian instruments, eg notes G A B C D beaters/brushes, instruments. claves, , bells, soft beaters, claves and bells E claves, hand A selection of tuned tambours, drums, glockenspiels, A wide range of Untuned drums, scrapers, and maracas , percussion percussion, eg castanets, untuned instruments, tone bars, hand and sound makers triangles, drums, maracas, Electronic keyboards bells bells, tuned tambourines, instruments, eg bells recorders, Sound makers, ukulele, Eg foil, egg keyboard, timers, guitar cellophane

Year 4

Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term Poetry Sounds Building Ancient Worlds Communication In the Past

Environment Recycling Around the Time Food and Drink World Singing Spanish

Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2 Musical Performance Exploring Beat Structure Composition Notation Focus Sounds Composition Structure Pitch Pitch Beat Performance Use beatbox Use beatbox Combine four Compare and Compose a rap Play a piece with techniques to imitate techniques to imitate body percussion contrast the Copy rhythms and a melody, chords, bass Key Skills the sound of a drum the sound of a drum ostinati as a song structure of two short melody. and rhythm parts kit. kit. accompaniment. pieces of music Listen to and analyse from graphic, rhythm Perform a rap or Perform a rap or Improvise melodies Explore layers 20th century ballet and staff notations. song with a vocal song with a vocal with a given set of and layering music Combine singing, beatbox beatbox five notes (a using a graphic playing and dancing accompaniment. accompaniment. pentatonic scale) score. Identify in a performance. Perform a poem as Learn to sing partner Describe the key features of Play an instrumental Sing a song with an ensemble with songs. structure of a minimalist music accompaniment of three simple rhythmic accuracy Identify different piece of orchestral rhythms, chords and independent parts. to a steady beat. instrument groups music. Combine riffs. Understand Balance voices in a from a recording. Use rondo singing with Compose a fanfare syncopation and performance by Listen to and learn structure to build a untuned and Learn to play a clap improvised off- choosing about 1940s dance performance. tuned Renaissance dance beat rhythms. appropriate band music. percussion in a from notations. Identify the metre of dynamics Play a pentatonic performance. Learn a dance and a new song or piece Understand how Perform verse and song with leaps in Sing a call and play music from a Play and sing rhythmic articulation chorus structure. pitch on tuned response song in 19th century repeated patterns affects musical Chant in three parts. percussion. a minor key in German opera. from notation. phrasing. Improvise in response Combine singing two groups Listen to and learn Match short rhythmic to visual stimuli, with with percussion in Create about Renaissance phrases with rhythm Compose an a focus on. a performance descriptive instruments notation introduction for a Explore household Compose and sound pictures Learn a 1960s pop song. items as instruments notate pentatonic with instruments song and popular Explore the and match rhythms melodies on a dance styles of the descriptive music of with appropriate graphic score time two famous soundmakers. Learn about and composers of the Demonstrate sing an African- 20th and 21st understanding of American spiritual. Compose and play century. how sounds are Develop listening sequences of word produced by making skills by analysing rhythms. instruments and comparing Learn a traditional Listen to and play music from West African call along with Bhangra different traditions and response song music. Perform a piece in rondo form Key Beat, rhythm, Aerophone, Verse, chorus, Structure, verse, Rhythmic ostinato, Ternary form, dynamics, ostinato, chordophone, ostinato, rhythm chorus, coda, melodic ostinato, fanfare, rhythm Vocabulary canon, tempo, membranophone, dynamics, riff, dynamics, phrase, harmony, chord, ostinato, coda, beat, timbre, texture, idiophone, beatbox, texture, drone, crescendo, beat, metre, rhythm, tempo, chord, riff, pitch, duration, break, spiritual, rondo, fanfare, diminuendo, outro, syncopation, metre, break, instrumental structure, drone, unison, round, crescendo, structure, ostinato, riff, break, waltz link, timbre, pitch, ostinato, vibration, binary, circular score, minimalism, graphic pentatonic scale, introduction, coda rhythm, groove, round, tempo score, texture, rondo, chant, call verse, chorus, pentatonic, accompaniment, and response, ternary, spiritual, gospel minor key, hocket, phrase improvisation, rondo music, harmony, pitch structure (ABACA) graphic notation, pitch, off-beat improvisation, Resources Untuned percussion, Newspapers Untuned A large hand drum Maracas, shakers, Tuned percussion. shakers, drums, Waste paper items, percussion, eg or , hand tambours, bass Untuned percussion, tambours eg boxes, claves, shakers, drums, low-pitched drum, cymbal eg drums, A wide selection of tissue paper, cereal guiros, hand instruments, ukulele, Tuned percussion – tambourines, bells, instruments and box liners, magazines drums,Indian bells. recorders, chime xylophone, chime bass, ukulele, soundmakers Materials and Tuned percussion, bars, xylophones, bars, or bell, guitar , keyboard – household waste keyboards, maracas, chime bars or hand Fruit machine items for making recorders, chime tambourines, chimes, lockenspiels, Cards, finger junk instruments. bars castanets Tambourines, cymbals, wood guitar, keyboard blocks

Year 5

Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term Our Solar System Life Cycles Keeping At the Movies Celebration Community Healthy

Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2 Musical Performance Listening Structure Beat Composition Performance Focus Conduct metres of Develop techniques Create musical Sing and play Sing and play Sing a song in unison two, three and four. of performing rap effects using scales and percussion in a and three-part Key Skills Prepare for a using texture and contrasting pitch. chromatic group piece with harmony. performance by rhythm. Compare and melodies changes in tempo Celebration considering narration, Create and present contrast two accurately. and dynamics . Perform a song with performance space, a performance of pieces of 19th Read grid or staff Perform music a complex structure setting up and other song, music and century Romantic notation to play a together in in four parts. logistics. poetry music. bassline. synchronisation with Sing with attention to Develop Play and improvise Read a melody in Sing and play an a short movie. accuracy in rhythm, accompaniments using the whole tone staff notation. American spiritual Use the musical pitch and dynamics. using ostinato and scale. Develop a dimensions to create Develop ensemble invent or improvise Listen to music with structure for a and perform music playing, focusing on rhythms on untuned focus and analyse vocal piece and for a movie. steady beat and percussion. using musical create graphic Evaluate and refine placing notes Learn about jazz scat vocabulary. score. compositions with accurately together. singing and devise scat Hear and Explore extended reference to the Control short, loud sounds. understand the vocal techniques inter-related sounds on a variety Learn to sing a song features of the whole through listening to dimensions of music. of instruments. from English musical tone scale. and composing ‘a Identify changes in Explore and analyse heritage (20th century) Listen to a 19th capella’ tempo and their a song arrangement century tone poem (unaccompanied) effects. and its structure. and describe its vocal music based Demonstrate Rehearse, improve effects and use of on graphic scores. understanding of the and analyse an the musical Learn about the effect of music in ensemble dimensions. music of an early movies. performance, with Listen to and learn Baroque opera Interpret graphic attention to balance about modern notation on various and staying in time. classical/avant soundmakers with an garde music (20th understanding of century. their qualities and Listen to and analyse Capabilities. 19th century Learn about and use impressionist music cue scores. using musical Create sounds for a vocabulary. movie, following a timesheet. Learn about and explore techniques used in movie soundtracks. Key Metre, melodic Structure, verse, Structure, round, Tempo, structure, Tempo, dynamics, Melody, harmony. ostinato, dynamics, chorus, bridge, metre, melody, pitch, scale, timbre, phrase, pitch, Coda, ostinato, Vocabulary lyrics, ostinato, dynamics, timbre, lead vocal, chromatic, rhythm, texture, melody, verse, chorus, improvisation melodic ostinato, backing vocal, syncopation, rhythm. fanfare, verse, diminuendo, cumulative, drone, chromatic bridge, pitch, crescendo, texture, beat/pulse, Unison, dynamics, duration, tempo, duration, tempo, dynamics, syncopation, score texture rhythm, pitch pitch, clusters, Symmetrical Rhythm, chord, trill, minor, timbre, rhythm Tuned percussion – A selection of Triangle, claves, Tambour, bass selection of tuned Tuned instruments, percussion, eg wind chimes, drum, claves, and untuned recorder, bass Resources A selection of untuned triangle, cymbal, triangle, claves, tambourine, instruments and Keyboard, trumpets, percussion tone bar, Indian bell, , recorder, maracas, guiro, soundmakers clarinets, guitar, chime bar maracas, ooden bass guitar, ukulele, chime bars, Tuned percussion, eg Agogo, keyboard, bass xylophone, a Xylophone, , 2 string xylphone, bass xylophone, bike bell and , guiro, instruments, metallophone, glockenspiel, hooter tambour, triangle, Xylophone, samba glockenspiel, cymbal, claves • A selection of claves, cymbal, drums, , keyboard, soundmakers swanee whistle, hand drums metallophone.

Year 6

Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term World Unite Journeys Growth Roots Class Moving On Awards

Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2 Musical Step Dance Song Cycle Street Dance Mini Musical Awards Leavers’ Focus Performance Performance Performance Performance Show Assembly Performance Performance Demonstrate Convey lyrical Play a chordal Develop, rehearse Refine vocal Perform complex understanding of meaning through accompaniment and perform a mini- performance with song rhythms Key Skills beat and expressive singing in to a piece. musical, including consideration of confidently. syncopation a part-song with Revise, rehearse, dialogue, singing, posture, Change vocal through singing echoes. and develop playing and breathing and tone to reflect and body Develop song music for movement. enunciation. mood and style. percussion. cycles for performance, Improvise Compose Experience and Demonstrate performance, with reference to descriptive music programme music understand the coordination and making decisions the inter-related on instruments and from a visual effect of rhythm skills by about texture, dimensions of other soundmakers. stimulus. changing participating in a staging and Music. Sing and play Discuss the music harmony. complex circle dramatization. Follow and traditional of a Russian Listen to and game. Learn to sing major interpret a Ghanaian music. Romantic understand Devise, combine and minor note complex graphic Sing two West composer with modulation in a and structure patterns accurately. score for four African call and reference to a musical bridge. rhythms through Demonstrate instruments. response songs in painting from the Play tuned dance. planning, directing, Learn to sing and two groups. same period instrumental parts Demonstrate and rehearsal skills play ostinati from confidently from understanding of through allocated an early 20th- graphic scores pitch through roles, such as century orchestral with note names. singing from simple technicians and work. staff notation. Researchers. Learn to sing and Learn a 1980s pop play ostinati from song with an early 20th- understanding of its century orchestral structure. work. Learn to sing a 21st- century British choral work. Key Structure, beat, Beat, rhythm, verse, Texture, rhythm, Beat, rhythm, • Verse, chorus, Verse, chorus, syncopation, chorus, song cycle, Ostinato, metre, improvise structure, dynamics, pitch, harmony, Vocabulary melody, rhythm, structure, phrasing, Structure, texture, tempo, dynamics, tremolo, timbre, structure, pitch, scat singing, dynamics, pitch, harmony, texture, timbre, tempo, rhythm, dynamics, pitch, harmony, key, middle eight, ostinato, chord, unison texture, rap, chord, coda, sStructure Harmony, minor key, beat, unison, fanfare, structure accompaniment, major key dynamics, melody, phrase modulation, major flashmob key, bridge

Resources Cups or bean bags A selection of Soundmakers, eg A selection of Tuned Tuned instruments, untuned glockenspiel, water instruments. Instruments. eg chime percussion, eg in a plastic bottle, Suspended Digital images of Bars. tambourine, cymbal and soft cymbal and soft class shakers, finger beater, pebbles in Beaters, snare Memories cymbals, a container, finger drum, drum, Xylophones. hand drum cymbals glockenspiel Tuned instruments, Cabasa, , chime Djembe, hand bars, xylophones, drum. glockenspiels, drums, tuned percussion, keyboards.