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.  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.

Our pupils also have regular opportunities to listen to live musicians performing for different purposes e.g. within a theatre production, playing instruments within our school, singing in different genres.

 

                                       

Our Learning

Singing

• Being together in music
• Controlling your voice
• Singing as a choir
• Controlling and describing pitch
• Exploring emotions through Music
• Choosing sounds to create effects
• Responding to music

Untuned Percussion

• Experimenting with sounds
• Exploring ostinato
• Rhythm and pulse
• Composing short patterns
• Representing sounds pictorially
• Tempo and dynamics - identifying changes in Music (fast / slow,  loud / soft)

Tuned Percussion

• Experimenting with sounds
• Representing sounds pictorially
• Tempo and dynamics - controlling and describing.