Music: Key Stage 1

Children explore keeping the pulse together through music and movement, by exploring their favourite things.

(5 lessons)

Use bodies and instruments to listen and respond to pieces of music with fast and slow speeds; learn and perform a rhyme and a song focussing on fast and slow.

(5 lessons)

Children make links between music, sounds and environments and use percussion, vocal and body sounds to represent calm or stormy seas.

(5 lessons)

Through fairytales, children are introduced to the concept of sound patterns (rhythms). They explore clapping along to repeated words and phrases, creating rhythmic patterns to tell a familiar fairytale.

(5 lessons)

Learning how to identify high and low notes and to compose a simple tune to represent a superhero.

(5 lessons)

Children combine all the musical concepts learned throughout Year 1 for an underwater-themed performance incorporating instrumental, vocal and body sounds.

(5 lessons)

Using instruments to represent animals, copying rhythms and creating call and response rhythms.

(5 lessons)

Children learn how events, actions and feelings within stories can be represented by pitch, dynamics and tempo.

(5 lessons)

Learning folk songs and creating sounds to represent three contrasting landscapes: seaside, countryside and city.

(5 lessons)

Developing knowledge and understanding of dynamics using instruments; learning to compose and play rhythms to represent planets.

(5 lessons)

Developing an understanding of structure by exploring and ordering rhythms.

(5 lessons)

Exploring the song ‘Once a Man Fell in a Well’, playing it using tuned percussion and reading simple symbols representing pitch.

(5 lessons)