What do we want our KS1 music curriculum to achieve?

• Use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes
• Play tuned and untuned instruments musically
• Listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music
• Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the interrelated dimensions of music.

How do we fulfil this in KS1?

Music is taught as a discrete subject, by music specialists.  

It covers different topic-based themes and includes all pupils and provide them with the opportunity to be challenged.

• 6 blocks of specialist planned Music teaching for Years 1-2.
• Knowledge based with skill development.
• Focus on core areas of study: performing, composing and the study of compositions.
• References to key musicians, styles and compositions that have influenced music as we know it.
• Focus on high-quality development of children as musicians.