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Learning Roadmap - MUSIC

Y4

Accent

Samba drumming

Interesting time signatures

4 Beats in a bar, simple and melodic patterns

Developing notation skills

Simple melodic patterns using GABC

Learning more musical styles

Listen to music from 1900 to now.

Composing using your imagination

Use you understanding to compose

Recorders

Ukulele

Emotions & musical styles

How does music connect us with the past?

Getting started with music tech

Asking and answering questions with instruments

Introducing chords

Use melodic patterns with notes C to B

Singing

PAN performance & percussion work

Gaining confidence through performance

How does music improve our world?

Ukulele

Exploring notation further

Using the scale of G major F#

Adding rhythm & pitch

Use long & short, high & low to create a simple pattern.

Explore sound & create a story

Compose using charanga graphics score

Introducing beat

Clap, tap, play to the pulse.

Exploring improvisation

Using graphic symbol/notation.

Explore simple patterns

Using minims, crotchets & quavers.

Explore feelings through music

Lessons using key elements of listening, performing, singing, composing & playing.

Big Bear Funk

Embedding musical foundation elements through funk.

Me

Tap, clap, dance to the beat.

My stories / Our world

Listen & respond in different styles of music.

Song Collections

Learning to sing to nursery rhymes, counting & action songs

Introducing tempo & dynamics

Recognising fast, slow, loud , soft.

Music that makes you dance

Music from 1980s to now.

Inventing a musical story

Lessons using the key elements of music.

KS2 Performance

Words, meaning and expressions

How does music shape our way of life?

Sharing musical experiences,

Getting to know our community

Connecting notes and feeling

Melodic patterns using A to G

Develop pulse and groove through improvisation

Using 3 notes and simple time signatures

Nativity

Nativity

Having fun with improvisation with body patterns

KS3+

Y2

Y3

Y5

EYFS

Y6

Y1

  • Play and perform confidently
  • improvise and compose
  • use relevant notations
  • identify and use the inter-related dimensions of music expressively
  • listen with increasing discrimination
  • develop a deepening understanding of the music that they perform / listen

KS3 Music Curriculum