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Developing our singing voice

Playing together in an ensemble

Practising and preparing for a performance

Creating, composing and improvising

Notating and sharing music

Music over time and in different places

Year 1

Start with singing: finding my singing voice
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Singing together: how singing makes me feel
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Compose and Create: exploring and performing rhythm patterns
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Music and movement: feeling the pulse and changing the tempo
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Compose and create: high and low melodic responses
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Singing for performance: Changing tempo and dynamics in our songs
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Year 2

Start with singing: learning through singing games
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Singing together: how singing helps us work together
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Compose and create: recording our musical ideas using a graphic score
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Music and movement: using symbols to represent pitch
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Compose and create: improvising with four notes
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Singing for performance: adding a simple second part
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Year 3

Start with playing: adding percussive layers to build to texture in our songs
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Singing together: how songs are used in communities
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Compose and Create: notating and performing using rhythm grids
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Playing together: building texture with melody, drone and ostinato
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Compose and Create: major pentatonic melodies
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Singing for performance: holding a second part in rounds and partner songs
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Year 4

Start with playing: adding layers to major and minor songs
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Singing together: how stories are shared through song
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Compose and Create: improvising within Hindustani classical music
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Playing together: effective rehearsing as part of an ensemble
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Compose and Create: composing a major melody on a stave
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Singing for performance: discovering different ways to sing in harmony
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Year 5

Sing, play, perform: adding tuned accompaniment to part-singing
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Singing together: how songs unite us
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Compose and rehearse: creating and combining minimalist cells
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Playing together: discovering different vocal timbres
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Compose and Create: composing a minor melody on a stave
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Singing for performance: syncopation in songs
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Year 6

Sing, play, perform: accompanying songs with polyrhythms
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Singing together: music that comments on social change
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Compose and rehearse: improvising with the minor pentatonic scale
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Playing together: arranging and rehearsing a fusion performance
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Compose and Create: creating melodic variations based on a theme
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Singing for performance: conveying emotion and character through performance
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Year 6

Sing, play, perform: accompanying songs with polyrhythms

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Notating and sharing music
Playing together in an ensemble

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This unit explores different rhythm patterns from around the world. Through body percussion pupils play contrasting styles of rhythms and transfer these onto untuned percussion. They play one rhythm against another, building up layers of sound whilst maintaining a secure sense of pulse.

In this unit, pupils will develop their ability to layer multiple rhythms, building on previous units in which they layered different parts in songs, instrumental accompaniments and composed ostinati. The pupils utilise previously studied rehearsal skills and reflect on previous learning around effective ensemble practice, building on these rehearsal skills for a more effective performance. Pupils are introduced to the term polyrhythms.

Syncopation in songs
Syncopated rhythms
Introducing polyrhythm
Layering rhythms
Creating polyrhythms
Polyrhythmic accompaniments

Use this KS1 and KS2 music curriculum plan to explore our sequences developed by leading subject exp...

Use this KS1 and KS2 music curriculum plan to explore our sequences developed by leading subject experts from across the country, to build your knowledge of primary music curriculum planning, or use it as inspiration for your own planning, seeing where you could use our teaching resources to update what you’ve already got. It’s all designed to align with the national curriculum for primary music.

You can filter to find the year group or concept you’re teaching – from rhythm and pulse to composition and performance. Threads highlight how musical vocabulary, listening skills and creativity are built on year after year.

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