Learning objective
- To play music from staff notation with accuracy, fluency, control and expression
National curriculum
Pupils should be taught to:
- Play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression
- Listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory
- Use and understand staff and other musical notations
- Appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians
- Develop an understanding of the history of music
Differentiation
Pupils needing extra support: These children can play the easier of the differentiated parts for each song, as follows:
- Put on your Gumboots: part 2
- What’s the Story: part 2
- Vamos! Let’s Go: part 1
- Blue Sky: either tuned percussion 1 or 2
- Indian Fantasy: Part 2
- Interlocking Patterns: Part 2
Pupils working at greater depth: These pupils can play the more challenging parts for each piece, as follows:
- Put on your Gumboots: part 1
- What’s the Story: part 1
- Vamos! Let’s Go: part 2
- Blue Sky: Could play the lead part (tuned percussion 1 and 2 are a similar level of challenge)
- Indian Fantasy: Part 1
- Interlocking Patterns: Part 1
