All students will be
working on music tying in with our Black History Month celebrations, followed
by material linked with our Winter Concerts, alongside ongoing work in singing
and playing music together, and developing music-reading skills.
Beyond this:
Reception will be singing together, exploring and
discovering lots of different instruments, and learning about controlling music
– taking turns to direct groups of players to start and stop, get louder and
quieter, and looking at the different ways that music can be led and directed.
Year 1 will be working on action songs, and exploring pitch
– differentiating between high and low sounds, understanding how they are made
with instruments and the voice, and learning to control the pitch of their own
singing.
Year 2 will be exploring sounds through different
instruments, learning about the different way sounds are made, learning to
group instruments into families (things you hit, things you shake, things you
pluck, and so on), and choosing different instruments appropriately when
composing music to fit a story.
Year 3 will be learning about story-telling songs – learning
how music can be used to pass on traditions, and working towards making their
own musical pieces based around story-telling. They will also be focusing on
scores – ways of writing down and representing music on the page, learning to
follow and interpret written music, and finding their own ways to write down
musical instructions.
Year 4 will be exploring some different musical traditions
from around the world, identifying differences and similarities with our own
music, and making their own pieces based on music from different cultures.
Year 5 will learning about ostinatos – repeating music
patterns such as riffs, loops and drumbeats, learning how musical pieces can be
built out of them, and making their own pieces as a result, using voices and
instruments.
Year 6 will be using the school’s new iPads to learn about
music technology – building electronic music using drumbeats, loops and
samples, and looking at various types of popular music styles before making
their own pieces.
