year: Year 5
Music: Progression of skills and knowledge — mixed-age
Please note this document has been updated to reflect changes to our long-term plan. See the Music: Long-term plan — mixed-age to learn more about these changes.
Aimed at those schools following our Long-term plan: mixed-age, this downloadable progression of skills and knowledge document shows how Kapow Primary’s Music scheme develops music skills from EYFS through to Year 6. Updated to outline the accumulation of knowledge within the interrelated dimensions of music.
To see the skills and knowledge covered in each unit, see our Music key skills and knowledge by unit.
If you follow our standard Music – Long-term plan, see our standard Progression of skills and knowledge.
If you follow our Music: Long-term plan — condensed, see our Progression of skills and knowledge — condensed.
Computing: Progression of skills and knowledge – Mixed-age
French: Key skills and knowledge by unit
This document shows the skills and knowledge covered in our primary French curriculum suitable for:
Lower key stage 2 (Years 3 & 4)
Upper key stage 2 (Years 5 & 6)
It is invaluable if you wish to adapt our scheme of work to suit your school without adversely affecting progression.
If you would like to see an overview of progression through the whole of KS2, then please see our French: Progression of skills and knowledge.
Knowledge organiser: KS2 Instrumental Music: Indonesia
A Knowledge Organiser that captures the essential knowledge and skills learnt throughout the unit Music, KS2, Instrumental Lessons: Indonesia.
This resource is designed to support pupils as they explore traditional Indonesian gamelan music through instrumental practice. It introduces key musical vocabulary including gamelan, gong, metallophone, slendro, and octave, and explains how gamelan melodies follow a cyclical 8-note pattern. Pupils learn about the slendro scale—a pentatonic system where each pitch is numbered 1 to 5—and how different instruments play variations of the same tune using varying octaves and rhythms. This organiser also supports visual learning with labelled images of gamelan instruments and maps showing the musical origins in Java and Bali, helping pupils build cultural and musical awareness through hands-on experience.
RSE & PSHE: Statutory guidance coverage
A document mapping the DfE’s 2019 statutory guidance for Relationships and sex education (RSE) and Health education against Kapow Primary’s RSE and PSHE scheme. All units are hyperlinked for easy access.
French: Progression of skills and knowledge — condensed
This document is for those schools following our Long-term plan — condensed version for French and shows how skills and knowledge progress in our French scheme of work.
For the Speaking and pronunciation, Listening and Reading and writing strands we have provided a skills progression showing how each of the national curriculum targets for the end of key stage 2 have been broken down into smaller steps.
For the Grammar and Intercultural understanding strand we have provide both a knowledge and skills progression to show not only how skills have developed, but also how knowledge has accumulated from Year 3 to Year 6.
This document now contains guidance about vocabulary progression in French.
To see the skills and knowledge covered in each unit, then please see our French key skills and knowledge by unit.
For those following our standard curriculum please see the alternative Progression of skills and knowledge document here.
French: Progression of skills and knowledge — mixed-age
This downloadable progression of skills and knowledge document shows how Kapow Primary’s French scheme of work develops pupils’ skills and knowledge across the knowledge and skills strands of our curriculum
Knowledge strands: Phonics, vocabulary and grammar.
Skills strands: Language comprehension (listening and reading) and language production (Speaking and writing).
It is designed to accompany the French: Long-term plan — mixed-age.
*Please note that the vocabulary progression is not yet available as this is still being developed*
French: Long-term plan — condensed
Our French: Long-term plan—condensed curriculum version suggests an order for primary lesson plans for French for schools with less time. It details which units/ lessons to teach if you wish to teach only 18 lessons over a school year, rather than the full scheme of work we detail on our standard French: Long-term plan.
The organisation of our French curriculum is explained, such as detailing the strands which thread through every unit. Each unit is hyperlinked and there is a short description of the content to give you an overview of Kapow’s Languages curriculum.
This condensed curriculum version of the French Long-term plan still gives full coverage of the national curriculum, but in fewer lessons. Please note that not all the skills and knowledge from our French: Progression of skills and knowledge document will be covered: you are advised to see our French: Progression of skills and knowledge — condensed version for further details if you follow the condensed curriculum.
