Welcome to Music

Sensory play:

• Pupils can demonstrate they have listened to songs and stories by retelling and answering questions.
• Pupils engage with multi-sensory activities
• Pupils join in with singing familiar songs
• Pupils choose which parts of a session was their favourite

Conducting and exploring instruments:

• Pupils can choose which instrument is their favourite
• Pupils can hold percussion instruments accurately
• Pupils can follow a conductor stop and start singing and playing instruments
• Pupils can follow a conductor to sing and play instruments loud and quietly
• Pupils can follow a conductor to sing and play instruments fast and slow
• Pupils can use hand signals to conduct groups to stop and start, be loud or quiet and fast or slow
• Pupils know when to play an instrument by seeing its picture

Musical stories:

• Pupils can mark the pulse of music
• Pupils can mark the pulse and sing while accompanied and unaccompanied
• Pupils can create and perform actions to music
• Pupils can use simple body percussion sounds to create music
• Pupils can sing short songs
• Pupils can sing their name solo
• Pupils create musical sound effects in response to stimuli

Pulse and rhythm:

• Pupils demonstrate a steady pulse using actions or percussion, while listening to music and while singing
• Pupils can copy and create simple rhythms using Kodaly sounds
• Pupils recognise how graphic notation can represent sounds
• Pupils can use graphic notation to create rhythms
• Pupils recognise crotchet, quavers and semi-quavers and crotchets rest and use their Kodaly sounds ta, ti ti, tiki tiki and shh to voice them
• Pupils can identify classroom percussion instruments

Pitch and Solfége:

• Pupils can recognise high vs low sounds
• Pupils can sing using sol, mi, la and do pitches
• Pupils can compose using sol, mi, la and do pitches
• Pupils can order sol, mi, la and do from high to low pitch
• Pupils know the Curwen sign for sol, mi, la and do

Expression and movement to music:

• Can use the whole body to create percussive sounds
• Knows the difference between left and right to support coordination and shared movement with others
• Can respond to the pulse through movement and dance E.G stepping, jumping
• Can mark the pulse of music with actions, instruments, and counts
• Can respond to the mood of music by matching body movements

Jack and the Beanstalk (dynamics)

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Music through the Ages

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Music through the Ages

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Rhythms around the world

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Rhythms around the world

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Musical genres

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Musical genres