Key stage 1

Music

Fully resourced music curriculum is coming this autumn.

We’re busy creating the final lessons and units. Download the curriculum plan now to explore what’s coming and the thinking behind our curriculum design.

Units (16)

Music units

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Brand-new teaching resources, thoughtfully crafted by teachers for classroom needs.

Full primary curriculum

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Start with singing: finding my singing voice
Year 1
6 lessons
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Start with singing: finding my singing voice
Year 1
6 lessons
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Compose and Create: exploring and performing rhythm patterns
Year 1
6 lessons
2
Compose and Create: exploring and performing rhythm patterns
Year 1
6 lessons
3
Music and movement: feeling the pulse and changing the tempo
Year 1
6 lessons
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Music and movement: feeling the pulse and changing the tempo
Year 1
6 lessons
4
Compose and create: high and low melodic responses
Year 1
6 lessons
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Compose and create: high and low melodic responses
Year 1
6 lessons
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Compose and create: recording our musical ideas using a graphic score
Year 2
6 lessons
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Compose and create: recording our musical ideas using a graphic score
Year 2
6 lessons
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Music and movement: using symbols to represent pitch
Year 2
6 lessons
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Music and movement: using symbols to represent pitch
Year 2
6 lessons
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Compose and create: improvising with four notes
Year 2
6 lessons
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Compose and create: improvising with four notes
Year 2
6 lessons

Units released in 2020-22

Resources made during the pandemic to support remote teaching.

Curriculum download

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Pulse
Year 1
6 lessons
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Pulse
Year 1
6 lessons
2
Timbre
Year 1
6 lessons
2
Timbre
Year 1
6 lessons
3
Rhythm
Year 1
6 lessons
3
Rhythm
Year 1
6 lessons
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Pitch
Year 1
3/6 lessons
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Pitch
Year 1
3/6 lessons
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Contrasts
Year 1
6 lessons
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Contrasts
Year 1
6 lessons
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Musical devices
Year 1
6 lessons
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Musical devices
Year 1
6 lessons
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Pulse and Metre
Year 2
6 lessons
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Pulse and Metre
Year 2
6 lessons
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Tempo, Dynamics, Timbre
Year 2
6 lessons
8
Tempo, Dynamics, Timbre
Year 2
6 lessons
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Rhythm
Year 2
6 lessons
9
Rhythm
Year 2
6 lessons

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