Use of voice expressively and creatively
- Sing echo songs and perform movements to a steady beat
- Explore singing at different speeds and pitch to create moods and feelings
- Discover how to use the voice to create loud and soft sounds
Play tuned and untuned instruments
- Play instruments to a steady beat
- Understand how to hold and play an instrument with care
- Explore the different sounds instruments make
- Choose an instrument to create a specific sound
Listen with concentration and understanding
- Express feelings in music by responding to different moods in a musical score
- Listen to music and respond by using hand and whole body movements
- Listen to different sounds (animal noise, water etc) and respond with voice and movement
Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds
- Choose different instruments, including the voice, to create sound effects in play
- Investigate a variety of ways to create sound with different materials
- Experiment performing songs and music together with body movements to a steady beat
Use of voice expressively and creatively
- Explore the use of the voice in different ways such as speaking, singing and chanting
- Discover how the voice can produce rhythm and pulse, high and low (pitch) to create different effects
- Find out how to sing with expression, confidence and creativity to an audience
Play tuned and untuned instruments
- Play instruments showing an awareness of others
- Repeat and investigate simple beats and rhythms
- Learn to play sounds linking with symbols
- Understand how to play an instrument with care and attention
Listen with concentration and understanding
- Choose sounds to represent different things (ideas, thoughts, feelings, moods etc)
- Reflect on music and say how it makes people feel, act and move
- Respond to different composers and discuss different genres of music
Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds
- Create a sequence of long and short sounds with help, including clapping longer rhythms
- Investigate making sounds that are very different (loud and quiet, high and low)
- Explore own ideas and change as desired
Use of voice expressively and creatively
- Sing with a sense of the shape of a melody
- Represent sounds with symbols
- Improvise in making sounds with the voice
- Perform songs using creativity and expression
Play tuned and untuned instruments
- Perform simple patterns and accompaniments keeping to a steady pulse
- Recognise and explore how sounds can be organised
- Respond to starting points that have been given
- Understand how to control playing a musical instrument so that they sound as they should
Listen with concentration and understanding
- Notice how music can be used to create different moods and effects and to communicate ideas
- Listen and understand how to improve own composition
- Sort composers into different genres and instruments into different types
Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds
- Choose carefully and order sounds in a beginning, middle and end
- Use sounds to achieve an effect (including use of ICT)
- Create short musical patterns
- Investigate long and short sounds
- Explore changes in pitch to communicate an idea
Play and perform
- Sing in tune
- Perform simple melodic and rhythmic parts
- Improvise repeated patterns
- Begin to understand the importance of pronouncing the words in a song well
- Start to show control in voice
- Perform with confidence
Improvise and compose music
- Compose music that combines musical elements
- Carefully choose sounds to achieve an effect
- Order sounds to help create an effect
- Create short musical patterns with long and short sequences and rhythmic phrases
Listen with attention to detail and recall sounds
- Notice and explore the way sounds can be combined and used expressively
- Listen to different types of composers and musicians
Appreciate and understand a wide range of live and recorded music
- Begin to recognise and identify instruments being played
- Comment on likes and dislikes
- Recognise how musical elements can be used together to compose music
Develop an understanding of the history of music
- Describe the different purposes of music throughout history and in other cultures
- Understand that the sense of occasion affects the performance
Play and perform
- Sing in tune with awareness of others
- Perform simple melodic and rhythmic parts with awareness of others
- Improvise repeated patterns growing in sophistication
- Sing songs from memory with accurate pitch
- Maintain a simple part within a group
- Understand the importance of pronouncing the words in a song well
- Show control in voice
- Play notes on instruments with care so they sound clear
- Perform with control and awareness of what others in the group are singing or playing
Improvise and compose music
- Compose music that combines several layers of sound and develop awareness of the effect
- Compose and perform melodies and songs (including using ICT)
- Use sound to create abstract effects
- Recognise and create repeated patterns with a range of instruments
- Create accompaniments for tunes
- Carefully choose, order, combine and control sounds with awareness of their combined effect
Listen with attention to detail and recall sounds
- Notice and explore the way sounds can be combined and used expressively
- Listen to different types of composers and musicians
Use and understand staff and other musical notation
- Learn to read music in ukulele lessons
- Use staff and musical notation when composing work
- Know how many beats in a minim, crochet and semi-breve and recognise their symbols
- Know the symbol for a rest in music and use silence for effect in music
Appreciate and understand a wide range of live and recorded music
- Begin to recognise and identify instruments and numbers of instruments and voices being played
- Compare music and growing tastes in music
- Explain how musical elements can be used together to compose music
Develop an understanding of the history of music
- Understand that the sense of occasion affects the performance
- Combine sounds expressively
Play and perform
- Create songs with an understanding of the relationship between lyrics and melody
- Whilst performing by ear and from notations, maintain own parts with awareness of how the different parts fit together and the need to achieve an overall effect
- Breath well and pronounce words, change pitch and show control in singing
- Perform songs with an awareness of the meaning of the words
- Hold a part in a round
- Sustain a drone or a melodic ostinato to accompany singing
- Play an accompaniment on an instrument (eg glockenspiel, bass drum or cymbal)
Improvise and compose music
- Use the venue and sense of occasion to create performances that are well appreciated by the audience
- Compose by developing ideas within musical structures
- Improvise melodic and rhythmic phrases as part of a group performance
- Improvise within a group
Listen with attention to detail and recall sounds
- Notice and explore the relationship between sounds
- Notice and explore how music reflects different intentions
Use and understand staff and other musical notation
- Know and use standard musical notation of crochet, minim and semibreve to indicate how many beats to play
- Read the musical stave and work out the notes EGBDF and FACE
- Draw a treble clef at the correct position on the stave
Appreciate and understand a wide range of live and recorded music
- Compare and evaluate different kinds of music using appropriate musical vocabulary
- Explain and evaluate how musical elements, features and styles can be used together to compose music
Develop an understanding of the history of music
- Understand the different cultural meanings and purposes of music, including contemporary culture
- Use different venues and occasions to vary performances
Play and perform
- Perform significant parts from memory and from notations with awareness of own contribution
- Refine and improve own work
- Sing or play from memory with confidence, expressively and in tune
- Perform alone and in a group, displaying a variety of techniques
- Take turns to lead a group
- Sing a harmony part confidently and accurately
Improvise and compose music
- Improvise melodic and rhythmic phrases within given structures
- Show thoughtfulness in selecting sounds and structures to convey an idea
- Create own musical patterns
- Use a variety of different musical devices including melody, rhythms and chords
Listen with attention to detail and recall sounds
- Notice, comment on and compare the use of musical devices
- Notice, comment on and compare the relationship between sounds
- Notice, comment on, compare and explore how music reflects different intentions
Use and understand staff and other musical notation
- Use a variety of notation when composing and performing
- Quickly read notes and know how many beats they represent
- Use a range of words to help describe music (eg pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, silence)
- Describe music using musical words
Appreciate and understand a wide range of live and recorded music
- Analyse, compare and evaluate different kinds of music using appropriate musical vocabulary
- Explain and evaluate how musical elements, features and styles can be used together to compose music
Develop an understanding of the history of music
- Notice and explore how music reflects time, place and culture
- Understand and express opinions on the different cultural meanings and purposes of music, including contemporary culture
- Use different venues and occasions to vary performances
