Welcome to the music room

This is the plan for the next 6 weeks.

YEAR 1

STORYTIME

Musical focus: Exploring sounds.

The children learn how music can be used to tell a story. They identify contrasts of fast and slow, loud and quiet, leading to a performance.

OUR BODIES

Musical focus: Beat.

The children respond with their bodies to steady beat and rhythm in music. They experience combining rhythm patterns with steady beat, using body percussion.

YEAR2

WEATHER

Musical focus: Exploring sounds.

The children have opportunities to create descriptive sounds and word rhythm with raps and songs about the weather. They create a descriptive class composition using voices and instruments.

PATTERN

Musical focus: Beat

Using simple notation, the children play, create and combine minibeast rhythm using body percussion and instruments.

YEAR3

HUMAN BODY

Musical focus: Structure

Skeleton dances and songs teach the children about the human body. Percussion instruments are used to improvise, create word rhythm, and build a final skeleton dance.

SINGING FRENCH

Musical focus: Pitch

Un, deux, trois and away we go to enhance language learning through songs. Children are introduced to French greetings, vocabulary and numbers as they play lively singing games.

YEAR4

COMMUNICATION

Musical focus: Composition

Children create a news programme, complete with theme music and school news headlines. Using songs and raps, this musical news bulletin will alert the school to the burning issues of the day.

TIME

Musical focus: Beat

Music featuring bells and clocks helps the children to understand rhythm and syncopation. They learn to sing and play bell patterns, listen to an orchestral clock piece, and create their own descriptive music.

YEAR5

AT THE MOVIES

Musical focus: Composition

Explore music from 1920s animated films to present day movies. The children learn techniques for creating soundtrack and film scores, and they compose their own movie music.

YEAR6

CLASS AWARDS

Musical focus: Awards show performance.

An ideal opportunity to celebrate the children’s achievements at the end of primary school with a musical awards show customized for your class. Individual awards are presented along with fanfare, rap, song and famous music in a final grand ceremony.