Music long term plan 2014/15 Year 1 Autumn 1
Autumn 2
Spring 1
Spring 2
Summer 1
Summer 2
Sounds Interesting Exploring sounds
Special Occasions Exploring Duration
Toys – Exploring pulse, rhythm, tempo
Fairy tales – Exploring Pitch
Weather Music Exploring Graphic Scores
In the Garden
Use their voices
Singing songs from the topic All Assembly Songs
Christmas Songs, Halloween and firework songs, Songs from the KS1 Christmas Play
Performance of Toy Songs, Songs related to toys eg walking like a robot, my machine
Fairy Tales Performance, Songs about fairy tale characters All Assembly Songs
Performance of songs and whole class composition All Assembly Songs
Sing – A Tiny Seed Was Sleeping and variety of plant songs and songs about insects All Assembly Songs
Play tuned and untuned instruments
Using instruments to take part in the performance of a story and to improvise sounds
Use instruments as accompaniment to songs
Using instruments to play a variety of pulse and rhythm and to accompany songs
Use tuned and untuned percussion to play parts in a story
Use instruments to play graphic scores and as part of large group compositions
Use instruments as a tool to compose and accompany songs
Listen with concentration and understanding
–made by different instruments as well as sounds we can make with our bodies, handling instruments
– discriminate between long and short sounds and create interesting sequences of sound, Exploring signals
– recognising the difference between pulse and rhythm, developing a sense of pulse
to a range of high-quality live and recorded music
Music from different times and cultures, variety of songs and sound sources
Identifying long and short sounds in music Christmas Music, music for special occasions
Stories about toys with sound effects, songs and marches
Make and combine sounds
Use sounds expressively to illustrate a story, Handling instruments
Use percussion instruments to create a sequence of long and short ‘Winter’ sounds (use symbols to record on paper)
Performance of toy songs and composing own toy story
Assessment
Taking part in the performance of a story, singing.
Performance of a Christmas song
Performance of Toy Songs
Learning Journey
Discriminate between high and low sounds create simple melodic patterns, composing, playing together Listen to music with changes in pitch, Jack and the Beanstalk story and songs Using a known fairytale, chn create melodic sequences for characters and other sound effects as you tell the story
-Exploring timbre, tempo and dynamics, conductors, exploring signals
Pitch (link with growth), pulse, rhythm, timbre, composing, performing, playing together
Variety of pieces that represent different types of weather
Listen to a variety of insect pieces and music about nature
Children compose a storm piece and create a graphic score to represent this
Compose a short piece of music based around an insect
Fairy Tales Performance
Insect Composition
Performance of songs and whole class composition
Year 2 Autumn 1
Autumn 2
Spring 1
Spring 2
Summer 1
Summer 2
Learning Journey
Will I Ever Be Famous?Investigating Pulse and Rhythm
Special Occasions Exploring Instruments
Traditional StoriesExploring and combining sounds
Animal MagicExploring and combining sounds
Junk BandRhythm and Percussion
Music Around the WorldRhythm and Percussion
Use their voices
Variety of songs for the topic All Assembly songs
Animal Songs eg Never Smile at a Crocodile, All Assembly songs
Do Anything But Throw it Away, Eddie the Penguin songs All Assembly songs
Songs from Africa and Asia – eg Si Si Si, A Keelie, Kye Kye Kule, Junkanoo, Dragon Song
Play tuned and untuned instruments
Performing a variety of songs and also clapping the pulse and rhythm to a variety of songs
Play a variety of pieces that represent animals
Create a class junk band, accompanying a song (recyclable itiems eg tins, plastic bottles/boxes etc)
Prform different types of world music and own composition
Graphic scores, timbre, texture, pitch, exploring sounds, Elements of music, composing, instrument families
Rhythm, pulse, pattern: ostinato, basic notation, exploring signals, playing together
Pulse, repeated rhythms, cyclic patterns, call & response, pentatonic scales
Listen to extracts from Carnival of the Animals by Saint Saens
Stomp – videos & music, songs
Listen to a variety of music from different countries – consider styles, instruments
Chn compose a short piece of music to describe an animal
Compose word rhythms based on recycling to play on old junk
Chn will write their own dragon song
Composition and Performance of Animal Piece
Junk Performance
Performance of World Songs and writing and performing song
Listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music Make and combine sounds Assessment
Pulse, rhythm, patterns in pitch, structure, handling instruments,
Classical to pop music, pieces to aid pulse and rhythm teaching
Songs from the KS1 Christmas Play Christmas concert performance, songs learnt in topic, accompaniments to pieces and sound effects Pitch, dynamics, performance Exploring Sounds, handling instruments,
Listen to a variety of Christmas songs. Halloween songs
Improvise rhythmic patters Sing a song from a popular musician
Sing a Christmas song
Red Riding Rap (SS Book 1) Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? All Assembly songs Use percussion instruments to create sound effects for a story Record and sequence effects using software To use music to tell a story (atmosphere, sound effects), timbre, pitch, composing, instrument families Peter & the Wolf – identifying instruments and how they are played effectively to tell a story. Use percussion instruments to create sound effects for a story Performance of Story and music with this
Year 3 Autumn 1
Autumn 2
Spring 1
Spring 2
Summer 1
Summer 2
Learning Journey
Rhythm in Action (Exploring Rhythm and Pitch)
Big Sing (Handling Instruments)
Performing Together (Exploring lyrics/ melody and structure)
The Elements of Music (Reading Notation)
Instrument Families
The Weather (Exploring Descriptive sounds)
Perform in solo and ensembles
Performing own rhythms, rhythm pieces, ostinatos, varying rhythm tasks, singing songs All Assembly Songs
Sing Rounds, singing pitch songs, Kodaly songs, recorder performance, handling instruments All Assembly Songs, Christmas Concert
Sing songs as solos and groups from the 1960s, perform as a band All Assembly Songs
Reading and playing Staff notation (treble clef) Handling instruments, sight reading
Continuation of the recorder scheme ready for final performance/ assessment
Singing Weather songs, end of year assembly class recorder performance, Weather composition, All Assembly Songs
Improvise and compose
Improvise using percussion instruments and rhythms learnt, writing own rhythms, exploring percussion instruments
Compose own short melody for recorder using up to three notes, rhythmic improvisation
Improvise accompaniments to songs
Write own melodies using the recorder as a tool
Recognise instruments both visually and by listening, categorise instruments
Children compose music to describe a particular colour or piece of artwork, storm soundscape as a class
Listen with attention
Listen to recordings of music from around the world. All Songs. Rhythm patterns.
Improve singing and performing, Listen to a variety of 1960’s songs
Pitch Games and songs All Assembly Songs
Listen to music played by the different instrument families
Listen to a variety of music that describes weather or seasons
Use staff and other notations Appreciate live and recorded music from different traditions
Listen to rounds, Christmas songs pieces, and recorder pieces. Teacher demonstrations, themselves Reading rhythms, Bar Lines, End Bar lines, crotchet, minims, semibreves, reading rhythms with notes written underneath, songs/rounds, Gamelan Scales, writing notation, playing rhythms, ostinato patterns
Listen to music from various countries and a variety of percussion instruments
Listen to Christmas music from different traditions and music from the medieval period
Reading staff notation, Stave and symbols, treble clef, 4/4, CBAG on the stave, song books
Listen to recordings and performances of music from the 1960’s
Rhythm and Melody writing, performing melodies, sight reading
Symbols Continued: ¾ Staccato, F and P (dynamics), Rests (Minims and Crotchets), repeats, ostinato patterns
Listen to a range of music played by variety of instruments, consider performance
Children listen to music and describe how it makes them feel, weather pieces
Develop an understanding of Music History Assessment
Relate music heard to time and context Percussion and notation test, Final rhythm writing
Listen to a variety of medieval and Christmas music, Composition and performance of own Medieval Piece (using recorder)
The influence of 1960’s music, especially the Beatles, on popular music Composition and performance of own song
Discussion of elements, list of a elements when responding to music/ classical Final Performance of CBAG pieces, Composition work
Show the development of instruments throughout history Final Recorder performance
Composition and performance of soundscape
Year 5 Autumn 1
Autumn 2
Spring 1
Spring 2
Summer 1
Summer 2
Performing Together (Introduction to keyboard)
Music and the Media- TV Adverts (Exploring Musical Processes)
Music and the Media- Film Music (Exploring Musical Processes) Final product, demonstrations All assembly songs
Learning Journey
Samba (Exploring Rhythmic patterns)
Big Sing- Victorian Christmas (Exploring the voice)
Natural Disasters (Exploring Descriptive Sounds)
Perform in solo and ensembles
Sing songs togetherCall and response, world music songs, responding to signals, playing as a large ensemble
Performing at the Christmas Concert, Singing songs, rounds, in two parts,
Performance of own composition, Volcano songs, All assembly songs
Perform variety of pieces using the electronic keyboard
Perform own Advert Jingle
Compose a piece of music to describe a natural disaster using the pentatonic scale within a given structure Listen to descriptive pieces of music, volcano songs, music using the pentatonic scale
Investigation of voice, exploring the voice of the keyboard, melody writing, rhythm writing
Compose own Advert Jinglemelody writing with an accompaniment
Demonstrations, keyboard pieces,
Listen to Radio/TV Jingles
Listen to music from film and cartoons, ideas, pupils work
Reading and playing CDE (FG) using the treble clef, Graphic Score, Pentatonic Scale, drone
Single Fingered Function, Reading and writing CDEFG, Playing a drone, Major and Minor
Layering Patterns and Sequencing, using ICT to compose
Listen to a range of music that has nature as the theme
Watch performers playing the keyboard instruments
Listen/watch adverts from across the decades
Listen and watch film and cartoon clips from different genres
How music has been used to represent nature by Great composers
How the keyboard developed from the harpsichord
Use of music in adverts
Development of film music
Improvise and compose
Composing Cyclic Patterns,
Listen with attention
Respond to aural cues when playing, Listen to recordings
Use staff and other notations
Rhythm grids, reading rhythms inc. Bar Lines, End Bar lines, crotchet, minims, semibreves, rests, dynamics
Notation for songs available
Appreciate live and recorded music from different traditions
Listen to recordings of Samba, Mp4’s of Samba schools and carnivals
Watch choirs perform, performances of Romantic music and Ballet
Develop an understanding of Music History
Relate music heard to its time and context
Romantic Music and Ballet, Traditional Victorian Carols background
Victorian Christmas carols, music from the romantic Period All assembly songs
Create their own music to accompany a short filmEl Caminante
Assessment
Ongoing performances
Final Performance of a song
Volcano composition and Score
Keyboard Performance
Final composition and performance
El Caminante Composition
Year 6 Autumn 1 Learning Journey
Yorkshire Folk music (Exploring lyrics and melody)
Autumn 2
Spring 1
Spring 2
Summer 1
Summer 2
Big Sing (Singing in Parts)
Blues (Exploring lyrics/ melody and structure)
WW2 MusicJazz/Swing (Exploring lyrics/ melody and structure)
The Planets(Exploring Sound Sources)
Performing Together
A variety of Jazz and WW2 songs, Scat, All assembly songs,
Performance of own composition, Sing World in union, perform ostinatos All assembly songs
Practice and present a final performance
Explore improvisation
Compose a planet piece
Solo parts
Perform songs in parts as groups, Vocal Development
Perform own Blues song with following elements: chords, bass line (HA), lyrics, improvisation All assembly songs Lyric Writing, improvising
Perform in solo and ensembles
Performance of own folk song and traditional folk songs
Improvise and compose
Lyric and Melody writing
Listen with attention
Listen to a variety of folk songs both old and modern
Listen to a variety of Four Seasons, Canon, Toccata and Fugue, Organ Music
Listen to Blues music, lyrics, lyric structure and Twelve Bar Blues
Variety of jazz music using improvisation
Listen to the Planets by Holst
Listen to each other, examples of performers
Use staff and other notations
Using notation to write a melody, single fingered chords, scales, drones, rhythm writing
Singing rounds and Canons, Carols All assembly songs
Chords and Chord Sequences, Bass Line, Structure
Notation for songs available
Writing notation
Reading notation to perform
Appreciate live and recorded music from different traditions
Listen and review a selection of folk performances
Listen to choral works and choirs singing different songs from different genres
Recordings of authentic blues and
Chn will put their blues song to music using the twelve bar blues structure including and improvisation section
Recordings of the Planets
Watch/Listen to recordings of popular bands/artists
Develop an understanding of Music History
Relate music heard to its time and context
Music mainly from the Baroque period
Relate music heard to its time and context
Relate music heard to its time and context
Investigate Holst and his Planets
Explore popular music over the decades
Assessment
Assessment of final song
Performance of songs
Performance of own Blues song and assessment of Blues Lyrics
Final performance of Blues piece and improvisation
Planet test and composition and performance of planet piece
Final Performance