Music
Music plays an important part in the life of the school. Children can learn a variety of instruments through the visiting music staff and each child from year 1 upward receives one hour's class music time each week from the school's specialist music teacher. They learn to make music together as a whole class and as they progress, in smaller groups. Children are encouraged to perform to increase their confidence. Various instrumental and vocal ensembles are run each week for those who are learning instruments or have singing lessons and there is also a school choir. The children enjoy taking part in shows and concerts throughout the year.
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| MUSIC LONG TERM PLANS
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| Term 1 | Term 2 | Term 3 |
| Foxes nursery | Pulse, rhythm and expression Songs: My body/Harvest/water/ autumn/Christmas Nursery rhymes - spoken and sung. Care of instruments and controlling Sounds. Nativity performance
| Pulse, rhythm and expression My body Singing - weather songs/Easter/Spring/insects Nursery rhymes - spoken and sung. Care of instruments and controlling Sounds. Counting forwards songs
| Pulse, rhythm and expression My body Singing -/summer/animals Nursery rhymes - spoken and sung. Care of instruments and controlling Sounds. Counting forwards songs Summer concert |
| reception | Pulse, rhythm and expression Songs: My body/Harvest/water/ autumn/Christmas Nursery rhymes - spoken and sung. Care of instruments and controlling Sounds. Nativity performance
| Pulse, rhythm and expression My body Singing - weather songs/Easter/Spring/insects Nursery rhymes - spoken and sung. Care of instruments and controlling Sounds. Counting forwards songs
| Pulse, rhythm and expression My body Singing -/summer/animals Nursery rhymes - spoken and sung. Care of instruments and controlling Sounds. Counting forwards songs Summer concert |
| Year 1 | Pulse rhythm and tempo Singing and rhyming games and activities. Days, months Harvest/ autumn/Christmas songs Nativity performance Exploring sounds (M EX. Year 1) Counting forwards and back wards songs
| Long and short sounds - duration (M EX year 1) Weather music. Instruments sounds and symbols Feel the Rhythm (M EX Y1). Singing and speaking rhymes to continue rhythm and pulse work. Days, months songs Counting forwards and back wards songs | Taking off - pitch (M EX Y1) Singing and speaking rhymes to continue rhythm and pulse work. Summer concert |
| Year 2 Developing..... | Rhythm and pulse and tempo Pitch and singing Harvest/ autumn/Christmas songs Nativity performance | Long and short sounds - duration Timbre dynamics Exploring pitch - scale and note names Recorders Singing | Instruments sounds and symbols Singing. Summer concert |
| Year 3 | Pitch and notes of the treble clef Recorders and singing -Pulse, simple rhythms and notation Team games rhythms and pitch. Taster lessons on strings, brass, woodwind. Harvest and Christmas songs. | Recorder, singing and pitch work. School production songs Taster lessons on strings, brass, woodwind. Playground songs, rhymes, games. For counting, clapping, ball play and skipping. (LCP unit 4C) | Recorder school production Animal Magic - music of Saint Sans, Prokoviev. Instruments and their sounds. Music that tells a story. |
| Year 4 | Rhythm, pulse, metre and notation Ostinato, tuned and untuned. Team games rhythms and pitch. Traditional songs, folk song, rounds and song accompaniments using tuned and untuned ostinatos. LCP unit 3 b & c) Harvest and Christmas songs. | School production songs Continue Traditional songs and song accompaniments using tuned and untuned ostinatos. LCP unit 3 b & c) Families of instruments, timbre Layout of orchestra. | Singing - 2nd World War songs (Song accompaniments) School production Instruments of other countries. Gamelan orchestra Chinese music pentatonic scale (LCP unit 4a) Instruments of other countries. |
| Year 5 | Cyclical patterns and layering. Rhythm, pulse, long and short notes. Irregular metres and Indian music. Rhythmic team games. Change ringing and handbells. Harvest and Christmas songs. | Music of the Tudors and Tudor instruments. Drones, melody, ostinato Keyboard skills - voice, split and layer Fanfares. School production songs | Using Keyboard skills compose/perform a pavanne. School production Water music Vltava and/or Space Music. Holst Graphic scores and composition. |
| Year 6 | Rhythmic Rounds and Rondos. Pulse, semiquavers patterns, relative note values. Melodic rounds and rondos. Rondo form in classical music. Harvest and Christmas songs. | Keyboard skills, style, voice, pitch, Keyboard skills continued. Scales and chords. School production songs Rock ‘n roll, 12 bar blues. | Keyboard skills, style, voice, pitch, Rock ‘n roll, 12 bar blues. continued School production. |
| Year 7 | Rhythm and pulse - Structure in music Metres, cyclical patterns and phase. Steve's Reich's Phase Music Harvest and Christmas songs. | Keyboard Skills, chords, composing melody. Revision of theory Passing and auxiliary notes Melody over chords. | Alongside Year 8 Music of the Caribbean(09) Music of S. America and Samba (10) Listening and analysis Composition Visiting workshop |
| Year 8
| Melody and accompaniment, style. Keyboard skills-.Christmas songs Compose a carol/Christmas song/festive song
| Manipulate that melody - film music. Analysis of film music Composing a leitmotif Changing the mood of the leitmotif to tell a story. Appreciation of Leitmotif in music. | Alongside Year 7 Music of the Caribbean(09) Listening and analysis Composition Visiting workshop |
