Music

 

Throughout the year the children will work on their performance skills through singing and playing instruments.  They will learn to use their voices expressively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes.  They will rehearse and perform with others, developing their awareness of being in a group and the importance of working together and experiencing the enjoyment that comes from performing in a group!  They will use the percussion instruments to develop musical ideas and composition skills.  The children will have opportunities to create musical patterns and explore and organise sounds and musical ideas.  This will develop their ability to represent a particular idea or scenario.   The children will begin to express their ideas and feelings about the music they are experiencing and evaluate their work.

Through performing their own music and listening to a range of music performed by others, the children will begin to understand some of the elements of music and these are broken down over the year, giving each term a specific focus.

Autumn Term – Pitch. 

This unit will help the children identify high and low sounds.  They will use their voices as well as instruments to explore the range of notes and also examine how to travel to higher or lower notes.

Spring Term – Structure. 

 This unit will help the children to understand how a piece of music is constructed or organised.  They will focus on the structure of ABA, learning how music is put into sections that are similar and different.

Summer Term – Timbre. 

During this unit the children will begin to gain an understanding of the versatility of the human voice and a range of instruments.  They will look at and explore, the way we can make sounds, with our voices.  The children will learn about how certain instruments are played and the different sounds they make.

In the Spring Term every child will also begin to learn how to play the recorder.  This will be an excellent start to learning to play an instrument and could lead on to them learning a woodwind instrument later.  It will also give them an initial understanding of music notation and how to read music.

Throughout the year the children will take part in many performances including a Christmas play, An Easter celebration and a year group concert.