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Music teaching at Sandhurst Primary School aims to follow the specifications of the National Curriculum; providing a broad, balanced and differentiated curriculum and ensuring the progressive development of musical concepts, knowledge and skills. At Sandhurst we believe that enjoyment of music plays an integral role in helping children to feel part of a community, therefore we provide opportunities for all children to create, play, perform and enjoy music both in class and to an audience. Through assemblies and key stage performances, children aim high to demonstrate their talent and their understanding of performing with awareness of others. They are also able to show their kindness to others by sharing their musical talents with the local community.

Lessons enable children to challenge and develop their skills, appreciate a wide variety of music and begin to appraise a range of musical genres.

The aims of our Music curriculum are to develop pupils who:

  • Enjoy and have an appreciation for music.
  • Listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, cultures, styles and traditions.
  • Can sing and use their voices to create different effects.
  • Create and compose music, both on their own and with others.
  • Use a range of musical language.
  • Make judgements and express personal preferences about the quality and style of music.
  • Take part in performances with an awareness of audience.

All children have access to music regardless of their academic ability, race, ethnicity, background and language. SEND pupils are actively encouraged to participate fully as music is often an area of the curriculum which allows them to excel. We aim to provide children with the opportunity to progress to the next level of their creative excellence.

We are also proud to be recognised as a Music Mark school for our commitment to providing high quality music lessons throughout the school.

Music in the EYFS

Within the EYFS setting, music is an integral part of children’s learning journey. Rhyme and rhythm are utilised throughout the learning of phonics, handwriting and mathematics. Children learn a wide range of songs and rhymes and develop skills for performing together. Singing and music making opportunities are used frequently to embed learning, develop musical awareness and to demonstrate how music can be used to express feelings.

Implementation in KS1 and KS2

Music teaching at Sandhurst Primary School delivers the requirements of the National Curriculum through use of the Charanga scheme of work. Teachers follow the suggested scheme of work, although adaptations can be made using the ‘freestyle’ element of the package to substitute units deemed to be more appropriate for thematic learning in other curriculum areas. Music lessons are broken down into half-termly units and an emphasis is placed on musical vocabulary, allowing children to talk about pieces of music using the correct terminology.

See the table below for termly units.

Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2
Year 1 Hey you! Rhythm in the Way we Walk and Banana Rap In the Groove Round and Round Your Imagination Reflect, Rewind and Replay
Year 2 Hands, Feet, Heart Ho, Ho, Ho I Wanna Play in a Band Zoo Time Friendship Song Reflect, Rewind and Replay
Year 3 Let your Spirit Fly Glockenspiel 1 Three Little Birds The Dragon Song Bringing us Together Reflect, Rewind and Replay
Year 4 Mama Mia Glockenspiel 2 Stop! Lean on me Blackbird Reflect, Rewind and Replay
Year 5 Livin’ on a Prayer Classroom Jazz 1 Make you Feel my Love The Fresh Prince of Bel Air Dancing in the Street Reflect, Rewind and Replay
Year 6 Happy Classroom Jazz 2 A New Year Carol You’ve got a Friend Music and me Reflect, Rewind and Replay

Performance is also an important part of musical teaching and learning at Sandhurst and pupils participate in a range of performances during their school ‘career’. These include nativities (KS1 and KS2), Easter performances (Years R-6) and a Leavers performance (Year 6). Pupils also take part in Harvest assemblies, class assemblies (Years R-6) and singing assemblies. Alongside our curriculum provision for music, pupils also have the opportunity to participate in additional Rock Steady music lessons and have individual piano lessons. Every year our choir takes part in the Young Voices concert at the 02 (Years 3 -6). From September 2024, a woodwind lessons will also be on offer.

Each unit of work has an on-going musical learning focus and lessons usually follow a specific learning sequence:

  • Listen and Appraise
  • Musical Activities (including pulse and rhythm)
  • Singing and Voice
  • Playing instruments · Improvisation / Composition
  • Perform and Share

Throughout their journey at Sandhurst, children’s musical skills and understanding are built year on year, from singing nursery rhymes and action songs from memory and performing simple rhythm patterns on tuned and untuned percussion instruments in Early Years, progressing their skills and understanding in KS1 where they also experience whole class instrumental tuition on the recorder or glockenspiel, to further developing their skills and knowledge of the subject in lower KS2,  where the children access music confidently, and have the ability to read and follow a simple musical or graphical score. Throughout all of this the child’s enjoyment of music is a key element, running alongside the ‘taught’ musical skills and objectives.

We want our pupils to develop a love for music and as a result remind them, if they continue to aim high, as a responsible citizen, they could become:

  • Theatre performer
  • Audio designer
  • Casting director
  • Performer
  • Song writer

We measure the impact of our curriculum through the following methods:

  • Use of the assessment tools provided within the Charanga scheme.
  • Pupil discussions and interviewing the pupils about their learning (pupil voice).
  • Photo and video evidence of the pupils practical learning.

Aspirations for the future

We want our pupils to develop a love for music and as a result remind them, if they continue to aim high, as a responsible citizen, they could become a Theatre performer, Audio designer, Casting director, Performer or Song writer

Our music curriculum is based on the Charanga world-leading music teaching and learning platform.

Charanga is a music education and technology company based in Brighton in the UK. They hve developed an online platform that provides teachers and students with the help and resources they need to achieve their musical ambitions.

They, like us believe that everyone who uses the Charanga platform should enjoy every minute of their music education. We are both passionate about children’s music learning and its potential to help them grow up as kind, curious, and open-minded young people, who are sensitive and knowledgeable about music and the arts.

"We know that we can transform music teaching and learning by combining world-class educational technology, solid pedagogy, and great resources. This is what has driven Charanga from its very beginnings."

Find out more by visiting their website : https://charanga.com/site/musical-school/

Knowledge & Skills – Year 1Download as PDF
Unit 1 2 3 4 5 6
Title Hey You Rhythm In The Way We Walk and The Banana Rap In the Groove Round and Round Your Imagination Reflect, Rewind & Replay
Style of main song Old School Hip-Hop Reggae Blues, Baroque, Latin, Bhangra, Folk, Funk Bossa Nova Pop Classical
Unit theme How pulse, rhythm and pitch work together. Pulse, rhythm and pitch, rapping, dancing and singing. How to be in the groove with different styles of music. Pulse, rhythm and pitch in different styles of music. Using your imagination. The history of music, look back and consolidate your learning, learn some of the language of music.
Instrumental Parts
Key C C D minor C Revise existing
One Note C C D C
Easy Part C C + D D, F, C + D C + G
Medium Part C + G C + D D, E, F, G + A C, E + G
Melody C + G C, G + A D, F, G, A + C E, G + A
Warm-up Games Progressive challenges within each Unit that include 4 games. The games build over the year but the structure stays the same.
Game 1 FInd The Pulse Choose an animal and find the pulse
Game 2 Rhythm Copy Back Listen to the rhythm and clap back
Game 3 Rhythm Copy Back, Your Turn
Game 4 Pitch Copy Back and Vocal Warm-up 1
Game 4a Pitch Copy Back and Vocal Warm-up 2
1 2 3 4 4 6
Improvisation
Challenge 1 Clap and Improvise

Listen and clap back, then listen and clap your own answer (rhythms of words).

Clap and Improvise

Listen and clap back, then listen and clap your own answer (rhythms of words).

Clap and Improvise

Listen and clap back, then listen and clap your own answer (rhythms of words).

Clap and Improvise

Listen and clap back, then listen and clap your own answer (rhythms of words).

Revise existing
Challenge 2 Sing, Play and Improvise

Using voices and instruments, listen and sing back, then listen and play your own answer using two notes, with C moving to D.

Sing, Play and Improvise

Using voices and instruments, listen and sing back, then listen and play your own answer using two notes, with C moving to D.

Sing, Play and Improvise

Using voices and instruments, listen and sing back, then listen and play your own answer using two notes, with D moving to E.

Sing, Play and Improvise

Using voices and instruments, listen and sing back, then listen and play your own answer using two notes, with D moving to E.

Challenge 3 Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using C or C and D

Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using C or C and D

Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using D or D and E

Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using D or D and E

Composing
With one note C C C Revise existing
With three notes C, D + E C, D + E C, D + E
With five notes C, D, E, F + G C, D, E, F + G C, D, E, F + G
Supporting Songs and Styles
1 2 3 4 5 6
Hey You! By Joanna Mangona Rhythm In The Way We Walk and The Banana Rap by Joanna Mangona and Jane Sebba In The Groove by Joanna Mangona Round and Round by Joanna Mangona Your Imagination by Joanna Mangona and Pete Readman Reflect, Rewind and Replay
Old-School Hip-Hop Reggae Blues, Baroque, Latin, Bhangra, Folk, Funk Bossa Nova Pop Classical
Me, Myself And I by De La Soul

Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air by Will Smith

Rapper’s Delight by The Sugarhill Gang

U Can’t Touch This by MC Hammer

It’s Like That by Run DMC

The Planets, Mars by Gustav Holst (Classical)

Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield (Pop)

The Banana Rap by Jane Sebba (Hip Hop)

Happy by Pharrell Williams (Pop)

When I’m 64 by The Beatles (Pop)

How Blue Can You Get by B.B. King (Blues)

Let The Bright Seraphim by Handel (Baroque)

Livin’ La Vida Loca by Ricky Martin (Latin/Pop)

Jai Ho by J.R. Rahman (Bhangra/Bollywood)

Lord Of The Dance by Ronan Hardiman (Irish)

Diggin’ On James Brown by Tower Of Power (Funk)

Livin’ La Vida Loca by Ricky Martin (Latin/Pop)

Imperial War March by John Williams (Film)

It Had Better Be Tonight by Michael Bublé (Latin/Big Band)

Why Don’t You by Gramophonedzie (Big Band/Dance)

Oya Como Va by Santana (Latin/Jazz)

Supercalifragilisticexpialid ocious from Mary Poppins

Pure Imagination from Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory soundtrack

Daydream Believer by The Monkees

Rainbow Connection from The Muppet Movie

A Whole New World from Aladdin

A Song Before Sunrise by Frederick Delius – 20th Century

The Firebird by Igor Stravinsky – 20th Century

The Bird by Sergei Prokofiev – 20th Century

Grand March from Aida by Giuseppe Verdi – Classical

Bolero by Maurice Ravel – 20th Century

The Lamb by John Tavener – Contemporary

Listen and Appraise
Knowledge Skills
  • To know 5 songs off by heart.
  • To know what the songs are about.
  • To know and recognise the sound and names of some of the instruments they use.
  • To learn how they can enjoy moving to music by dancing, marching, being animals or pop stars.
Games
Knowledge Skills
  • To know that music has a steady pulse, like a heartbeat.
  • To know that we can create rhythms from words, our names, favourite food, colours and animals.
There are progressive Warm-up Games and Challenges within each Unit that embed pulse, rhythm and pitch. Children will complete the following in relation to the main song:

  • Game 1 – Have Fun Finding The Pulse! FInd the pulse. Choose an animal and find the pulse
  • Game 2 – Rhythm Copy Back Listen to the rhythm and clap back. Copy back short rhythmic phrases based on words, with one and two syllables whilst marching to the steady beat.
  • Game 3 – Rhythm Copy Back, Your Turn Create rhythms for others to copy
  • Game 4 – Pitch Copy Back and Vocal Warm-up 1 Listen and sing back. Use your voices to copy back using ‘la’, whist marching to the steady beat
  • Game 4a – Pitch Copy Back and Vocal Warm-up 2 Listen and sing back, and some different vocal warm-ups. Use your voices to copy back using ‘la’.
Singing
Knowledge Skills
  • To confidently sing or rap five songs from memory and sing them in unison.
  • Learn about voices, singing notes of different pitches (high and low).
  • Learn that they can make different types of sounds with their voices – you can rap or say words in rhythm.
  • Learn to start and stop singing when following a leader.
Playing
Knowledge Skills
  • Learn the names of the notes in their instrumental part from memory or when written down.
  • Learn the names of the instruments they are playing.
  • Treat instruments carefully and with respect.
  • Play a tuned instrumental part with the song they perform.
  • Learn to play an instrumental part that matches their musical challenge, using one of the differentiated parts (a one-note part, a simple part, medium part).
  • Listen to and follow musical instructions from a leader.
Improvisation
Knowledge Skills
  • Improvisation is about making up your own tunes on the spot.
  • When someone improvises, they make up their own tune that has never been heard before. It is not written down and belongs to them.
  • Everyone can improvise!
Use the improvisation tracks provided. Improvise using the three challenges:

  1. Clap and Improvise – Listen and clap back, then listen and clap your own answer (rhythms of words).
  2. Sing, Play and Improvise – Use voices and instruments, listen and sing back, then listen and play your own answer using one or two notes.
  3. Improvise! – Take it in turns to improvise using one or two notes.
Composition
Knowledge Skills
  • Composing is like writing a story with music.
  • Everyone can compose.
  • Help to create a simple melody using one, two or three notes.
  • Learn how the notes of the composition can be written down and changed if necessary.
Performance
Knowledge Skills
  • A performance is sharing music with other people, called an audience.
  • Choose a song they have learnt from the Scheme and perform it.
  • They can add their ideas to the performance.
  • Record the performance and say how they were feeling about it.

Knowledge & Skills - Year 2Download as PDF
Unit 1 2 3 4 5 6
Title Hands, Feet, Heart Ho, Ho, Ho I Wanna Play in a Band Zootime Friendship Song Reflect, Rewind & Replay
Style of main song Afropop, South African A song with rapping and improvising for Christmas Rock Reggae Pop Classical
Unit theme South African music Festivals and Christmas Playing together in a band Reggae and animals A song about being friends The history of music, look back and consolidate your learning, learn some of the language of music
Instrumental Parts
Key G G D C C Revise existing
One Note G G F C C
Easy Part G, A + C G, A + B D + C C + D E + G
Medium Part G, A, B + C G, A + B G, F + C C + D E, G, A + B
Melody E, F, G, A, B + C N/A C, D + F C + D C, D, E, F, G, A + B
Warm-up Games Progressive challenges within each Unit that include 4 games. The games build over the year but the structure stays the same.
Game 1 Find the Pulse Choose an animal and find the pulse
Game 2 Rhythm Copy Back Listen to the rhythm and clap back
Game 3 Rhythm Copy Back, Your Turn
Game 4 Pitch Copy Back and Vocal Warm-up 1
Game 4a Pitch Copy Back and Vocal Warm-up 2
1 2 3 4 5 6
Improvising
Challenge 1 Clap and Improvise

Listen and clap back, then listen and clap your own answer (rhythms of words).

Clap and Improvise

Listen and clap back, then listen and clap your own answer (rhythms of words).

Clap and Improvise

Listen and clap back, then listen and clap your own answer (rhythms of words).

Clap and Improvise

Listen and clap back, then listen and clap your own answer (rhythms of words).

Revise existing
Challenge 2 Sing, Play and Improvise

Using voices and instruments, listen and sing back, then listen and play your own answer using two notes, with C moving to D.

Sing, Play and Improvise 

Using voices and instruments, listen and sing back, then listen and play your own answer using two notes, with F moving to G.

Sing, Play and Improvise

Using voices and instruments, listen and sing back, then listen and play your own answer using two notes, with C moving to D.

Sing, Play and Improvise

Using voices and instruments, listen and sing back, then listen and play your own answer using two notes, with C moving to D.

Challenge 3 Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using C or C and D.

Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using F or F and G.

Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using C or C and D.

Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using C or C and D.

Composing
With one note C F C C Revise existing
With three notes C, D + E F, G + A C, D + E C, D + E
With five notes C, D, E, F + G F, G, A, B♭ (A♯) + C C, D, E, F + G C, D, E, G + A
Supporting Songs and Styles
1 2 3 4 5 6
Hands, Feet, Heart by Joanna Mangona Ho, Ho, Ho by Joanna Mangona I Wanna Play in a Band by Joanna Mangona Zootime by Joanna Mangona Friendship Song by Joanna Mangona and Pete Readman Reflect, Rewind and Replay
Afropop, South African A song with rapping and improvising for Christmas Rock Reggae Pop Classical
The Click Song sung by Miriam Makeba

The Lion Sleeps Tonight sung by Soweto Gospel Choir

Bring Him Back by Hugh Masekela

You Can Call Me Al by Paul Simon

Hlokoloza by Arthur Mafokate

Bring Him Back Home (Nelson Mandela) by Hugh Masekela (Freedom Song)

Suspicious Minds by Elvis Presley (Pop)

Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder (Funk)

Fly Me To The Moon by Frank Sinatra (Big Band/Jazz)

We Will Rock You by Queen

Smoke On The Water by Deep Purple

Rockin’ All Over The World by Status Quo

Johnny B.Goode by Chuck Berry

I Saw Her Standing There by The Beatles

Kingston Town by UB40

Shine by ASWAD

IGY by Donald Fagen

Feel Like Jumping by Marcia Griffiths

I Can See Clearly Now  by Jimmy Cliff

Count On Me by Bruno Mars

We Go Together (from the Grease soundtrack)

You Give A Little Love (from Bugsy Malone)

That's What Friends Are For by Gladys Knight, Stevie Wonder, Dionne Warwick with Elton John

You've Got A Friend In Me by Randy Newman

Peer Gynt Suite: Anitras

Dance by Edvard Grieg - Romantic

Brandenburg Concerto  No 1 by Johann Sebastian Bach - Baroque

From The Diary Of A Fly by Béla Bartók - 20th Century

Fantasia On Greensleeves by Ralph Vaughn Williams - 20th century

Dance of The Sugar Plum Fairy by Pytor Tchaikovsky - Romantic

The Robots (Die Roboter) by Kraftwerk - Contemporary

Listen and Appraise
  • To know five songs off by heart.
  • To know some songs have a chorus or a response/answer part.
  • To know that songs have a musical style.
  • To learn how they can enjoy moving to music by dancing, marching, being animals or pop stars.
  • To learn how songs can tell a story or describe an idea.
Games
Knowledge Skills
  • To know that music has a steady pulse, like a heartbeat.
  • To know that we can create rhythms from words, our names, favourite food, colours and animals.
  • Rhythms are different from the steady pulse.
  • We add high and low sounds, pitch, when we sing and play our instruments
There are progressive Warm-up Games and Challenges within each Unit that embed pulse, rhythm and pitch. Children will complete the following in relation to the main song:

  • Game 1 - Have Fun Finding the Pulse! Find the pulse. Choose an animal and find the pulse.
  • Game 2 - Rhythm Copy Back Listen to the rhythm and clap back. Copy back short rhythmic phrases based on words, with one and two syllables whilst marching the steady beat.
  • Game 3 - Rhythm Copy Back, Your Turn Create rhythms for others to copy.
  • Game 4 - Pitch Copy Back and Vocal Warm-up 1 Listen and sing back. Use your voices to copy back using ‘la’, whilst marching the steady beat.
  • Game 4a - Pitch Copy Back and Vocal Warm-up 2 Listen and sing back, and some different vocal warm-ups. Use your voices to copy back using ‘la’.
Singing
Knowledge Skills
  • To confidently know and sing five songs from memory.
  • To know that unison is everyone singing at the same time.
  • Songs include other ways of using the voice e.g. rapping (spoken word).
  • To know why we need to warm up our voices.
  • Learn about voices singing notes of different pitches (high and low).
  • Learn that they can make different types of sounds with their voices - you can rap (spoken word with rhythm).
  • Learn to find a comfortable singing position.
  • Learn to start and stop singing when following a leader.

 

Playing
Knowledge Skills
  • Learn the names of the notes in their instrumental part from memory or when written down.
  • Know the names of untuned percussion instruments played in class.

 

  • Treat instruments carefully and with respect.
  • Learn to play a tuned instrumental part that matches their musical challenge, using one of the differentiated parts (a one-note, simple or medium part).
  • Play the part in time with the steady pulse.
  • Listen to and follow musical instructions from a leader.
Improvisation
Knowledge Skills
  • Improvisation is making up your own tunes on the spot.
  • When someone improvises, they make up their own tune that has never been heard before. It is not written down and belongs to them.
  • Everyone can improvise, and you can use one or two notes.
Use the improvisation tracks provided. Improvise using the three challenges:

  1. Clap and Improvise - Listen and clap back, then listen and clap your own answer (rhythms of words).
  2. Sing, Play and Improvise - Use voices and instruments, listen and sing back, then listen and play your own answer using one or two notes.
  3. Improvise! - Take it in turns to improvise using one or two notes.

 

 

Composition
Knowledge Skills
  • Composing is like writing a story with music.
  • Everyone can compose.
  • Help create three simple melodies with the Units using one, three or five different notes.
  • Learn how the notes of the composition can be written down and changed if necessary.
Performance
Knowledge Skills
  • A performance is sharing music with an audience.
  • A performance can be a special occasion and involve a class, a year group or a whole school.
  • An audience can include your parents and friends.
  • Choose a song they have learnt from the Scheme and perform it.
  • They can add their ideas to the performance.
  • Record the performance and say how they were feeling about it.

Knowledge & Skills – Year 3Download as PDF
Unit 1 2 3 4 5 6
Title Let Your Spirit Fly Glockenspiel Stage 1 Three Little Birds The Dragon Song Bringing Us Together Reflect, Rewind

& Replay

Style of main song RnB N/A Reggae A Pop song that tells a story Disco Classical
Unit theme RnB and other styles Exploring & developing playing skills Reggae and animals Music from around the world, celebrating our differences and being kind to one another Disco, friendship, hope and unity The history of music, look back and consolidate your learning, learn some of the language of music
Instrumental Parts
Key C Multiple pieces G G C Revise existing
One Note C E G G C
Easy Part C, F + G D + E and D + C G + A G C
Medium Part E, F ,G, A ,B + C D, E, F and C, D + E C + A G, A + B G, A + C
Melody N/A N/A C, D, E, G, A + Bb B, C, D, E, F + G G, A + C
Warm-up Games Progressive challenges within each Unit that include 4 games. The games build over the year but the structure stays the same.
Bronze no notes no notes no notes no notes no notes Revise existing
Silver C + sometimes D n/a C + sometimes D G + sometimes A C + sometimes A
Gold C + D n/a C + D G + A C + A
1 2 3 4 5 6
Improvisation
Bronze Challenge 1 Sing and Copy Back

Listen and sing back

Improvise using the note D Sing and Copy Back

Listen and sing back

Improvise Challenge 1

Listen and copy back

using the notes G, A + B

Sing and Copy Back

Listen and sing back

Revise existing
Bronze Challenge 2 Play and Improvise

Using your instruments, listen and play your own answer using one note: C

Play and Improvise
Using your instruments, listen and play your own answer using one note: C
n/a Play and Improvise

Using your instruments, listen and play your own answer using one note: C

Bronze Challenge 3 Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using one note: C

Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using one note: C

 

n/a

Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using one note: C

Silver Challenge 1 Sing, Play and Copy Back

Listen and copy back using instruments and one note: C

Sing, Play and Copy Back

Listen and copy back using instruments and one note: C

Improvise Challenge 2

Using your instruments, listen and play your own answer using any of these notes: G, A or B

Sing, Play and Copy Back

Listen and copy back using instruments, one note: C

Silver Challenge 2 Play and Improvise

Using your instruments, listen and play your own answer using one or two notes: C and sometimes D

Play and Improvise

Using your instruments,
listen and play your own answer using one or two notes: C and sometimes D

n/a Play and Improvise

Using your instruments, listen and play your own answer using one or two notes: C and sometimes A

Silver Challenge 3 Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using one or two notes: C and sometimes D

Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using one or two notes: C and sometimes D

n/a Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using one or two notes: C and sometimes A

Gold Challenge 1 Sing, Play and Copy Back

Listen and copy back using two notes: C and D

Improvise using the notes D E F Sing, Play and Copy Back

Listen and copy back using two notes: C and D

Improvise Challenge 3

Take it in turns to improvise using all or any of these notes: G, A and B

Sing, Play and Copy Back

Listen and copy back using two notes: C and A

Revise existing
Gold Challenge 2 Play and Improvise

Using your instruments, listen and play your own answer using two notes: C and D

n/a Play and Improvise

Using your instruments, listen and play your own answer using two notes: C and D

n/a Play and Improvise Using your instruments, listen and play your own answer using two notes: C and A
Gold Challenge 3 Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using two notes: C and D

n/a Improvise!
Take it in turns to improvise using two notes: C and D
n/a Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using two notes: C and A

Composition
Starting notes C D or E C G + A C + A Revise existing
Easy option C, D + E D + E C, D + E G, A + B C, A + G
Harder option C, D, E, F + G D + E C, D, E, G + A D, E, G, A + B C, D, E, G + A
Supporting Songs and Styles
1 2 3 4 5 6
Let Your Spirit Fly by Joanna Mangona Glockenspiel Stage 1 Three Little Birds by Bob Marley The Dragon Song by Joanna Mangona and Pete Readman Bringing Us Together byJoanna Mangona andPete Readman Reflect, Rewind and Replay
RnB Mixed styles Reggae A Pop song that tells a story Disco Classical
Colonel Bogey March by Kenneth Alford (Film)Consider Yourself from the musical ‘Oliver!’ (Musicals)

Ain’t No Mountain High Enough by Marvin Gaye (Motown)

You’re The First, The Last, My Everything by Barry White (Soul)

Easy E

Strictly D

Drive

D-E-F-initely

Roundabout

March of the Golden Guards

Portsmouth

Jamming by Bob Marley

Small People by Ziggy Marley

54-56 Was My Number by Toots and The Maytals

Ram Goat Liver by Pluto Shervington

Our Day Will Come by Amy Winehouse

Birdsong - Chinese Folk Music

Vaishnava Java - A Hindu Song

A Turkish Traditional Tune

Aitutaki Drum Dance from Polynesia

Zebaidir Song from Sudan

Good Times by Nile Rodgers

Ain’t Nobody by Chaka Khan

We Are Family by Sister Sledge

Ain’t No Stopping Us Now by McFadden and Whitehead

Car Wash by Rose Royce

L’Homme Arme by Robert Morton - Early Music

Les Tricoteuses (The Knitters) - Baroque

The Clock: II Andante by Franz Joseph Haydn - Classical

Piano Concerto: Allegro Maestoso (Tempo Guisto) by Franz Liszt - Romantic

Prelude A L’Apres-Midi d’un Faune by Claude Debussy - 20th century

Music for Large and Small Ensembles (opening) by Kenny Wheeler - Contemporary

Listen and Appraise
Knowledge Skills
  • To know five songs from memory and who sang them or wrote them.
  • To know the style of the five songs.
  • To choose one song and be able to talk about:
    • Its lyrics: what the song is about
    • Any musical dimensions featured in the song, and where they are used (texture, dynamics, tempo, rhythm and pitch)
    • Identify the main sections of the song (introduction, verse,chorus etc.)
      Name some of the instruments they heard in the song
  • To confidently identify and move to the pulse.
  • To think about what the words of a song mean.
  • To take it in turn to discuss how the song makes them feel.
  • Listen carefully and respectfully to other people’s thoughts about the music.
Musical Activities: Games
Knowledge Skills
  • Know how to find and demonstrate the pulse.
  • Know the difference between pulse and rhythm.
  • Know how pulse, rhythm and pitch work together to create a song.
  • Know that every piece of music has a pulse/steady beat.
  • Know the difference between a musical question and an answer.
Using the Warm up Games tracks provided, complete the Bronze, Silver and Gold Challenges. Children will complete the following in relation to the main song, using two notes:

  1. Find the Pulse
  2. Rhythm Copy Back:
    • a.  Bronze: Clap and say back rhythms
    • b.  Silver: Create your own simple rhythm patterns
    • c.  Gold: Perhaps lead the class using their simple rhythms
  3. Pitch Copy Back Using 2 Notes
    • a.  Bronze: Copy back - ‘Listen and sing back’ (no notation)
    • b.  Silver: Copy back with instruments, without then with notation
    • c.  Gold: Copy back with instruments, without and then with notation
  4. Pitch Copy Back and Vocal Warm-ups
Musical Activities: Singing
Knowledge Skills
 

To know and be able to talk about:

  • Singing in a group can be called a choir
  • Leader or conductor: A person who the choir or group follow
  • Songs can make you feel different things e.g. happy, energetic or sad
  • Singing as part of an ensemble or large group is fun, but that you mustlisten to each other
  • To know why you must warm up your voice
  • To sing in unison and in simple two-parts.
  • To demonstrate a good singing posture.
  • To follow a leader when singing.To enjoy exploring singing solo.
  • To sing with awareness of being ‘in tune’.
  • To have an awareness of the pulse internally when singing.
Musical Activities: Playing Instruments
Knowledge Skills
To know and be able to talk about:

  • The instruments used in class (a glockenspiel, a recorder)
  • To treat instruments carefully and with respect.
  • Play any one, or all of four, differentiated parts on a tuned instrument -
    a one-note, simple or medium part or the melody of the song) from memory or using notation.
  • To rehearse and perform their part within the context of the Unit song.
  • To listen to and follow musical instructions from a leader.

 

Musical Activities: Improvisation
Knowledge Skills
To know and be able to talk about improvisation:

  • Improvisation is making up your own tunes on the spot
  • When someone improvises, they make up their own tune that has never been heard before.
  • It is not written down and belongs to them
    To know that using one or two notes confidently is better than usingfive
  • To know that if you improvise using the notes you are given, you cannot make a mistake
Improvise using instruments in the context of the song they are learning to perform. Using the improvisation tracks provided, children will complete the Bronze, Silver or Gold Challenges:

  • Bronze Challenge:
    • Copy Back - Listen and sing back
    • Play and Improvise - Using instruments, listen and play your own answer using one note.
    • Improvise! - Take it in turns to improvise using one note.
  • Silver Challenge:
    • Sing, Play and Copy Back - Listen and copy back using instruments, using two different notes.
    • Play and Improvise - Using your instruments, listen and play your own answer using one or two notes.
    • Improvise! - Take it in turns to improvise using one or two notes.
  • Gold Challenge:
    • Sing, Play and Copy Back - Listen and copy back using instruments, two different notes.
    • Play and Improvise - Using your instruments, listen and play your own answer using two different notes.
    • Improvise! - Take it in turns to improvise using three different notes.

 

Musical Activities: Composition
Knowledge Skills
To know and be able to talk about:

  • A composition: music that is created by you and kept in some way. It’s like writing a story. It can be played or performed again to your friends.
  • Different ways of recording compositions (letter names, symbols, audio etc.)

 

  • Help create at least one simple melody using one, three or five different notes.
  • Plan and create a section of music that can be performed within the context of the unit song.
  • Talk about how it was created.
  • Listen to and reflect upon the developing composition and make musical decisions about pulse, rhythm, pitch, dynamics and tempo.
  • Record the composition in any way appropriate that recognises theconnection between sound and symbol (e.g. graphic/pictorial notation).

 

Performance
Knowledge Skills
To know and be able to talk about:

  • Performing is sharing music with other people, an audience
  • A performance doesn’t have to be a drama! It can be to one person or to each other
  • You need to know and have planned everything that will be performed
  • You must sing or rap the words clearly and play with confidence
  • A performance can be a special occasion and involve an audience including of people you don’t know
  • It is planned and different for each occasion
  • It involves communicating feelings, thoughts and ideas about the
    song/music
  • To choose what to perform and create a programme.
  • To communicate the meaning of the words and clearly articulate them.
  • To talk about the best place to be when performing and how to standor sit.
  • To record the performance and say how they were feeling, what they were pleased with what they would change and why.

Knowledge & Skills – Year 4Download as PDF
Unit 1 2 3 4 5 6
Title Mamma Mia Glockenspiel 2 Stop! Lean On Me Blackbird Reflect, Rewind & Replay
Style of main song Pop Mixed styles Grime Gospel The Beatles/Pop Classical
Unit theme ABBA’s music Exploring and developing playing skills using the glockenspiel Writing lyrics linked to a theme Soul/Gospel music and helping one another The Beatles, equality and civil rights The history of music, look back and consolidate your learning, learn some of the language of music
Instrumental Parts
Key G multiple pieces C C Revise existing
One Note G C C C
Easy Part G C + D C + F C + B
Medium Part G + A C ,D + E E, F + G G, A, B + C
Melody G, A, B + C C, D, E, F + G G, A, B, C, D + E C, D, E, F + G
Warm-up Games Progressive challenges within each unit that include four games. The games build over the year but the structure stays the same.
Bronze no notes no notes no notes no notes no notes Revise existing
Silver G + sometimes A n/a C + sometimes D F + sometimes G C + sometimes D
Gold G + A n/a C + D F + G C + D
Improvisation
Bronze Challenge 1 Sing and Copy Back

Listen and sing back

n/a Sing and Copy Back

Listen and sing back

Sing and Copy Back

Listen and sing back

Sing and Copy Back

Listen and sing back

Revise existing
Bronze Challenge 2 Play and Improvise Using your instruments, listen and play your own answer using one note: G Play and Improvise Using your instruments, listen and play your own answer using one note: C Play and Improvise Using your instruments, listen and play your own answer using one note: F Play and Improvise Using your instruments, listen and play your own answer using one note: C
Bronze Challenge 3 Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using one note: G

Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using one note: C

Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using one note: F

Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using one note: C

Silver Challenge 1 Sing, Play and Copy Back Listen and copy back using instruments, one note: G Sing, Play and Copy Back Listen and copy back using instruments, one note: C Sing, Play and Copy Back Listen and copy back using instruments, one note: F Sing, Play and Copy Back Listen and copy back using instruments, one note: C
Silver Challenge 2 Play and Improvise Using your instruments, listen and play your own answer using one or two

notes: G and sometimes A

Play and Improvise Using your instruments, listen and play your own answer using one or two

notes: C and sometimes D

Play and Improvise Using your instruments, listen and play your own answer using one or two

notes: F and sometimes G

Play and Improvise Using your instruments, listen and play your own answer using one or two

notes: C and sometimes D

Silver Challenge 3 Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using one or two notes: G and sometimes A

Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using one or two notes: C and sometimes D

Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using one or two notes: F and sometimes G

Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using one or two notes: C and sometimes D

Gold Challenge 1 Sing, Play and Copy Back Listen and copy back using two notes: C and D Sing, Play and Copy Back Listen and copy back using two notes: C and D Sing, Play and Copy Back Listen and copy back using two notes: F and G Sing, Play and Copy Back Listen and copy back using two notes: C and D
Gold Challenge 2 Play and Improvise Using your instruments, listen and play your own

answer using two notes: C and D

Play and Improvise Using your instruments, listen and play your own

answer using two notes: C and D

Play and Improvise Using your instruments, listen and play your own

answer using two notes: F and G

Play and Improvise Using your instruments, listen and play your own

answer using two notes: C and D

Gold Challenge 3 Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using two notes: C and D

Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using two notes: C and D

Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using two notes: F and G

Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using two notes: C and D

Composition
Starting notes G C n/a C C
Easy option G, A + B C, D + E F, G + A C, D + E
Harder option G, A, B, D + E C, D, E, F + G C, D, F, G + A C, D, E, G + A

 

 Supporting Songs and Styles 
1 2 3 4 5 6
Mamma Mia by ABBA Glockenspiel Stage 2 Stop! by Joanna Mangona Lean On Me sung by Bill Withers Blackbird by The Beatles Reflect, Rewind & Replay
Pop Mixed styles Grime and mixed styles Gospel Pop/The Beatles Classical
ABBA’s music:

Dancing Queen by ABBA

The Winner Takes It All by ABBA

Waterloo by ABBA

Super Trouper by ABBA

Thank You For The Music by ABBA

Mardi Gras Groovin’

Two-Way Radio

Flea, Fly, Mosquito Rigadoon

Mamma Mia

Portsmouth

Strictly D

Play Your Music

Drive

Gotta Be Me performed by Secret Agent 23 Skidoo (Hip Hop)

 Radetzky Marsch by Strauss (Classical)

 Can’t Stop The Feeling! by Justin Timberlake (Pop)

Libertango by Astor Piazzolla (Tango)

Mas Que Nada performed by Sérgio Mendes featuring Black Eyed Peas

He Still Loves Me by Walter Williams and Beyoncé (Gospel)

Shackles (Praise You) by Mary Mary (Gospel)

Amazing Grace by Elvis Presley (Gospel)

Ode To Joy Symphony No 9 by Beethoven (Romantic – Western Classical)

Lean On Me by The ACM Gospel Choir (Gospel)

Yellow Submarine by The Beatles

Hey Jude by The Beatles

Can’t Buy Me Love by The Beatles

Yesterday by The Beatles

Let It Be by The Beatles

La Quinta Estampie Real anon 13th century (Early Music)

The Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba by Handel (Baroque)

Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven (Romantic)

Bridal Chorus (Wedding March) by Wagner (Romantic)

Rhapsody In Blue by Gershwin (20th Century)

Einstein On The Beach by Philip Glass (Contemporary)

 

Listen and Appraise 
Knowledge Skills
  • To know five songs from memory and who sang them or wrote them. To know the style of the five songs.
  • To choose one song and be able to talk about:
  • Some of the style indicators of that song (musical characteristics that give the song its style).
  • The lyrics: what the song is about.
  • Any musical dimensions featured in the song and where they are used (texture, dynamics, tempo, rhythm and pitch).
  • Identify the main sections of the song (introduction, verse, chorus etc).
  • Name some of the instruments they heard in the song.
  • To confidently identify and move to the pulse.
  • To talk about the musical dimensions working together in the Unit songs eg if the song gets louder in the chorus (dynamics).
  • Talk about the music and how it makes them feel.
  • Listen carefully and respectfully to other people’s thoughts about the music.
  • When you talk try to use musical words.
Games 
Knowledge Skills
Know and be able to talk about:

  • How pulse, rhythm and pitch work together
  • Pulse: Finding the pulse – the heartbeat of the music
  • Rhythm: the long and short patterns over the pulse
  • Know the difference between pulse and rhythm
  • Pitch: High and low sounds that create melodies
  • How to keep the internal pulse
  • Musical Leadership: creating musical ideas for the group to copy or respond to
Using the Warm up Games tracks provided, complete the Bronze, Silver and Gold Challenges. Children will complete the following in relation to the main song, using two notes:

  1. Find the Pulse
  2. Rhythm Copy Back:
    • Bronze: Clap and say back rhythms
    • Silver: Create your own simple rhythm patterns
    • Gold: Perhaps lead the class using their simple rhythms
  3. Pitch Copy Back Using 2 Notes
    • Bronze: Copy back – ‘Listen and sing back’ (no notation)
    • Silver: Copy back with instruments, without then with notation
    • Gold: Copy back with instruments, without and then with notation
  4. Pitch Copy Back and Vocal Warm-ups
Singing 
Knowledge Skills
To know and be able to talk about:

  • Singing in a group can be called a choir
  • Leader or conductor: A person who the choir or group follow
  • Songs can make you feel different things e.g. happy, energetic or sad
  • Singing as part of an ensemble or large group is fun, but that you must listen to each other
  • Texture: How a solo singer makes a thinner texture than a large group
  • To know why you must warm up your voice
  • To sing in unison and in simple two-parts.
  • To demonstrate a good singing posture.
  • To follow a leader when singing.
  • To enjoy exploring singing solo.
  • To sing with awareness of being ‘in tune’.
  • To rejoin the song if lost.
  • To listen to the group when singing.
Playing 
Knowledge Skills
To know and be able to talk about:

  • The instruments used in class (a glockenspiel, recorder or xylophone).
  • Other instruments they might play or be played in a band or orchestra or by their friends.
  • To treat instruments carefully and with respect.
  • Play any one, or all four, differentiated parts on a tuned instrument – a one-note, simple or medium part or the melody of the song from memory or using notation.
  • To rehearse and perform their part within the context of the Unit song.
  • To listen to and follow musical instructions from a leader.
  • To experience leading the playing by making sure everyone plays in the playing section of the song.
Improvisation 
Knowledge Skills
To know and be able to talk about improvisation:

  • Improvisation is making up your own tunes on the spot
  • When someone improvises, they make up their own tune that has never been heard before. It is not written down and belongs to them.
  • To know that using one or two notes confidently is better than using five
  • To know that if you improvise using the notes you are given, you cannot make a mistake
  • To know that you can use some of the riffs you have heard in the Challenges in your improvisations
Improvise using instruments in the context of a song they are learning to perform. Use the improvisation tracks provided and improvise using the Bronze, Silver or Gold Challenges.

  • Bronze Challenge:
    • Copy Back – Listen and sing back melodic patterns
    • Play and Improvise – Using instruments, listen and play your own answer using one note.
    • Improvise! – Take it in turns to improvise using one note.
  • Silver Challenge:
    • Sing, Play and Copy Back – Listen and copy back using instruments, using two different notes.
    • Play and Improvise – Using your instruments, listen and play your own answer using one or two notes.
    • Improvise! – Take it in turns to improvise using one or two notes.
  • Gold Challenge:
    • Sing, Play and Copy Back – Listen and copy back using instruments, two different notes.
    • Play and Improvise – Using your instruments, listen and play your own answer using two different notes.
    • Improvise! – Take it in turns to improvise using three different notes.
Composition
Knowledge Skills
  • To know and be able to talk about:
  • A composition: music that is created by you and kept in some way. It’s like writing a story. It can be played or performed again to your friends.
  • Different ways of recording compositions (letter names, symbols, audio etc.)
  • Help create at least one simple melody using one, three or all five different notes.
  • Plan and create a section of music that can be performed within the context of the unit song.
  • Talk about how it was created.
  • Listen to and reflect upon the developing composition and make musical decisions about pulse, rhythm, pitch, dynamics and tempo.
  • Record the composition in any way appropriate that recognises the connection between sound and symbol (e.g. graphic/pictorial notation).
Performance 
Knowledge Skills
To know and be able to talk about:

  • Performing is sharing music with other people, an audience
  • A performance doesn’t have to be a drama! It can be to one person or to each other
  • You need to know and have planned everything that will be performed
  • You must sing or rap the words clearly and play with confidence
  • A performance can be a special occasion and involve an audience including of people you don’t know
  • It is planned and different for each occasion
  • It involves communicating feelings, thoughts and ideas about the song/music
  • To choose what to perform and create a programme.
  • Present a musical performance designed to capture the audience.
  • To communicate the meaning of the words and clearly articulate them.
  • To talk about the best place to be when performing and how to stand or sit.
  • To record the performance and say how they were feeling, what they were pleased with what they would change and why.

Knowledge & Skills – Year 5Download as PDF
Unit 1 2 3 4 5 6
Title Livin’ On a Prayer Classroom Jazz 1 Make You Feel My Love The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Dancing in the Street Reflect, Rewind & Replay
Style of main song Rock Bossa Nova and Swing Pop Ballads Old-School Hip-Hop Motown Classical
Unit theme Rock Anthems Jazz and Improvisation Pop Ballads Old School Hip-Hop Motown The history of music, look back and consolidate your learning, learn some of the language of music
Instrumental Parts
Key G Bossa Nova B, A + G

Swing D, E, G, A + B

C F Revise existing
One Note G C A F
Easy Part G, A + B C F D + A G
Medium Part D, E, F sharp, G E, F, G, A, B + C G + A F + G
Melody D, E, F sharp, G, A, B + C B, C, D, E, F + G C, D, E, F, G + A F, G, A + D
Warm-up Games Rhythm and Pitch Copy Back, and Question and Answer
Bronze G n/a C D F Revise existing
Silver G + A n/a C + D D + E F + G
Gold G, A + B n/a C, D + E D, E + F F, G + A
Improvisation
Bronze Challenge 1 Play and Copy Back Copy back using instruments. Use 1 note: G Bossa Nova B, A + G Swing D, E, G, A + B Play and Copy back Copy back using instruments. Use 1 note: C Play and Copy back Copy back using instruments. Use 1 note: D Play and Copy back Copy back using instruments. Use 1 note: D Revise existing
Bronze Challenge 2 Play and Improvise Question and Answer using instruments. Use 1 note in your answer: G Play and Improvise Question and Answer using instruments. Use 1 note in your answer: C Play and Improvise Question and Answer using instruments. Use 1 note in your answer: D Play and Improvise Question and Answer using instruments. Use 1 note in your answer: D
Bronze Challenge 3 Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using 1 note: G

Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using 1 note: C

Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using 1 note: D

Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using 1 note: D

Silver Challenge 1 Play and Copy back Copy back using instruments. Use 2 notes: G and A Play and Copy back Copy back using instruments. Use 2 notes: C and D Play and Copy back Copy back using instruments. Use 2 notes: D and E Play and Copy back Copy back using instruments. Use 2 notes: D and E
Silver Challenge 2 Play and Improvise Question and Answer using instruments. Use 2 notes in your answer: G and A Play and Improvise Question and Answer using instruments. Use 2 notes in your answer: C and D Play and Improvise Question and Answer using instruments. Use 2 notes in your answer: D and E Play and Improvise Question and Answer using instruments. Use 2 notes in your answer: D and E
Silver Challenge 3 Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using 2 notes: G and A

Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using 2 notes: C and D

Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using 2 notes: D and E

Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using 2 notes: D and E

Gold Challenge 1 Play and Copy back Copy back using instruments. Use 3 notes: G, A and B Play and Copy back Copy back using instruments. Use 3 notes: C, D and E Play and Copy back Copy back using instruments. Use 3 notes: D, E and F Play and Copy back Copy back using instruments. Use 3 notes: D, E and F
Gold Challenge 2 Play and Improvise Question and Answer using instruments. Use 3 notes in your answer: G, A and B Play and Improvise Question and Answer using instruments. Use 3 notes in your answer: C, D and E Play and Improvise Question and Answer using instruments. Use 3 notes in your answer: D, E and F Play and Improvise Question and Answer using instruments. Use 3 notes in your answer: D, E and F
Gold Challenge 3 Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using 3 notes: G, A and B

Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using 3 notes: C, D and E

Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using 3 notes: D, E and F

Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using 3 notes: D, E and F

Composing
Starting notes G n/a C D C Revise existing
Easy option G, A + B n/a C, D + E D, E + F C, D + E
Harder option G, A, B, D + E n/a C, D, E, F + G D, E, F, G + A C, D, E, F + G
Supporting Songs and Styles
1 2 3 4 5 6
Livin’ on a Prayer by Bon Jovi Classroom Jazz by Ian Gray To Make You Feel My Love sung by Adele Fresh Prince of Bel-Air rapped by Will Smith Dancing in the Street sung by Martha and The Vandellas Reflect, Rewind & Replay
Rock Bossa Nova and Swing Pop Ballads Old-School Hip-Hop Motown Classical
We Will Rock You by Queen

Smoke On The Water by Deep Purple

Rockin’ All Over The World by Status Quo

Johnny B.Goode by Chuck Berry

I Saw Her Standing There by The Beatles

Desafinado by Stan Getz (Swing)

Cotton Tail by Ben Webster

5 Note Swing by Ian Gray Perdido by Woody Herman

Make You Feel My Love by Bob Dylan

So Amazing by Luther Vandross

Hello by Lionel Ritchie

The Way You Look Tonight by Tony Bennett

Me Myself and I by De La Soul

Ready or Not by Fugees

Rapper’s Delight by The Sugarhill Gang U Can’t Touch This by M C Hammer

I can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) by The Four Tops

I Heard it Through the Grapevine by Marvin Gaye

Ain’t No Mountain High Enough sung by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell

You Are the Sunshine of My Life by Stevie Wonder

Music from Compline – Traditional – Early Music

Dido and Aeneas: Overture by Henry Purcell – Baroque

Symphony No. 5 in C minor (allegro con brio) by Ludwig Van Beethoven – Classical

Minute Waltz in D-flat by Chopin – Romantic

Central Park in the Dark by Charles Edward Ives – 20th Century

Clapping Music by Steve Reich– Contemporary

Listen and Appraise
Knowledge Skills
  • To know five songs from memory, who sang or wrote them, when they were written and, if possible, why?
  • To know the style of the five songs and to name other songs from the Units in those styles.
  • To choose two or three other songs and be able to talk about:
    • Some of the style indicators of the songs (musical characteristics that give the songs their style)
    • The lyrics: what the songs are about
    • Any musical dimensions featured in the songs and where they are used (texture, dynamics, tempo, rhythm and pitch)
    • Identify the main sections of the songs (intro, verse, chorus etc.)
    • Name some of the instruments they heard in the songs
    • The historical context of the songs. What else was going on at this time?
  • To identify and move to the pulse with ease.
  • To think about the message of songs.
  • To compare two songs in the same style, talking about what stands out musically in each of them, their similarities and differences.
  • Listen carefully and respectfully to other people’s thoughts about the music.
  • When you talk try to use musical words.
  • To talk about the musical dimensions working together in the Unit songs.
  • Talk about the music and how it makes you feel.
Games
Knowledge Skills
Know and be able to talk about:

  • How pulse, rhythm, pitch, tempo, dynamics, texture and structure work together and how they connect in a song
  • How to keep the internal pulse
  • Musical Leadership: creating musical ideas for the group to copy or respond to
Using the Warm up Games tracks provided, complete the Bronze, Silver and Gold Challenges. Children will complete the following in relation to the main song, using three notes:

  • Bronze Challenge
    • Find the pulse
    • Copy back rhythms based on the words of the main song, that include syncopation/off beat
    • Copy back one-note riffs using simple and syncopated rhythm patterns
  • Silver Challenge
    • Find the pulse
    • Lead the class by inventing rhythms for others to copy back
    • Copy back two-note riffs by ear and with notation
    • Question and answer using two different notes
  • Gold Challenge
    • Find the pulse
    • Lead the class by inventing rhythms for them to copy back
    • Copy back three-note riffs by ear and with notation
    • Question and answer using three different notes
Singing
Knowledge Skills
  • To know and confidently sing five songs and their parts from memory, and to sing them with a strong internal pulse.
  • To choose a song and be able to talk about:
    • Its main features
    • Singing in unison, the solo, lead vocal, backing vocals or rapping
    • To know what the song is about and the meaning of the lyrics
    • To know and explain the importance of warming up your voice
  • To sing in unison and to sing backing vocals.
  • To enjoy exploring singing solo.
  • To listen to the group when singing.
  • To demonstrate a good singing posture.
  • To follow a leader when singing.
  • To experience rapping and solo singing.
  • To listen to each other and be aware of how you fit into the group.
  • To sing with awareness of being ‘in tune’.
Playing
Knowledge Skills
To know and be able to talk about:

  • Different ways of writing music down – e.g. staff notation, symbols
  • The notes C, D, E, F, G, A, B + C on the treble stave
  • The instruments they might play or be played in a band or orchestra or by their friends
  • Play a musical instrument with the correct technique within the context of the Unit song.
  • Select and learn an instrumental part that matches their musical challenge, using one of the differentiated parts – a one-note, simple or medium part or the melody of the song from memory or using notation.
  • To rehearse and perform their part within the context of the Unit song.
  • To listen to and follow musical instructions from a leader.
  • To lead a rehearsal session.
Improvisation
Knowledge Skills
To know and be able to talk about improvisation:

  • Improvisation is making up your own tunes on the spot
  • When someone improvises, they make up their own tune that has never been heard before. It is not written down and belongs to them.
  • To know that using one or two notes confidently is better than using five
  • To know that if you improvise using the notes you are given, you cannot make a mistake
  • To know that you can use some of the riffs you have heard in the Challenges in your improvisations
  • To know three well-known improvising musicians
Improvise using instruments in the context of a song to be performed. Use the improvisation tracks provided and improvise using the Bronze, Silver or Gold Challenges.

  1. Play and Copy Back

Bronze – Copy back using instruments. Use one note.

Silver – Copy back using instruments. Use the two notes.

Gold – Copy back using instruments. Use the three notes.

  1. Play and Improvise You will be using up to three notes:

Bronze – Question and Answer using instruments. Use one note in your answer.

Silver – Question and Answer using instruments. Use two notes in your answer. Always start on a G.

Gold – Question and Answer using instruments. Use three notes in your answer. Always start on a G.

  1. Improvisation! You will be using up to three notes. The notes will be provided on-screen and in the lesson plan:

Bronze – Improvise using one note.

Silver – Improvise using two notes.

Gold – Improvise using three notes.

Classroom Jazz 2 – Improvise with a feeling for the style of Bossa Nova and Swing using the notes D, E, G, A + B (pentatonic scale/a five-note pattern)

Composition
Knowledge Skills
To know and be able to talk about:

  • A composition: music that is created by you and kept in some way. It’s like writing a story. It can be played or performed again to your friends.
  • A composition has pulse, rhythm and pitch that work together and are shaped by tempo, dynamics, texture and structure
  • Notation: recognise the connection between sound and symbol
  • Create simple melodies using up to five different notes and simple rhythms that work musically with the style of the Unit song.
  • Explain the keynote or home note and the structure of the melody.
  • Listen to and reflect upon the developing composition and make musical decisions about how the melody connects with the song.
  • Record the composition in any way appropriate that recognises the connection between sound and symbol (e.g. graphic/pictorial notation).
Performance
Knowledge Skills
To know and be able to talk about:

  • Performing is sharing music with other people, an audience
  • A performance doesn’t have to be a drama! It can be to one person or to each other
  • Everything that will be performed must be planned and learned
  • You must sing or rap the words clearly and play with confidence
  • A performance can be a special occasion and involve an audience including of people you don’t know
  • It is planned and different for each occasion
  • A performance involves communicating ideas, thoughts and feelings about the song/music
  1. To choose what to perform and create a programme.
  2. To communicate the meaning of the words and clearly articulate them.
  3. To talk about the venue and how to use it to best effect.
  4. To record the performance and compare it to a previous performance.
  5. To discuss and talk musically about it – “What went well?” and “It would have been even better if...?”

Knowledge & Skills – Year 6Download as PDF
Unit 1 2 3 4 5 6
Title Happy Classroom Jazz 2 A New Year Carol You’ve Got A Friend Music and Me Reflect, Rewind & Replay
Style of main song Pop/Neo Soul Bacharach and Blues Classical or Urban Gospel 70s Ballad/Pop Create your own music inspired by your identity and women in the music industry Classical
Unit theme Being happy! Jazz, improvisation and composition Benjamin Britten’s music and cover versions The music of Carole King The history of music, look back and consolidate your learning, learn some of the language of music
Instrumental Parts
Key D (mixolydian on A) C and Blues in C Eb major C major n/a Revise existing
One Note A n/a n/a C
Easy Part A + G n/a n/a G, A + B
Medium Part A, G + B n/a n/a C, D, E + F
Melody G, A, B, C, D + E n/a Eb, F, G, Ab, Bb, C + D D, E, F, G, A, B + C
Warm-up Games

Rhythm and Pitch Copy back and Question and Answer

Warm-up games pulse, rhythm and pitch Warm-up Games Rhythm and Pitch Copy back and Question and Answer n/a Revise existing
Bronze A n/a Learn to clap some of the the rhythms used in the song

Learn some musical phrases that you will sing in the song

A n/a Revise existing
Silver A + G n/a A + G
Gold A, G + B n/a A, G + E
Unit 1 2 3 4 5 6
Improvisation
Bronze Challenge 1 Play and Copy back Copy back using instruments. Use 1 note: A Bacharach Anorak C, D, E, F, G, A, B + C

Meet the Blues C, Bb, G, F + C

n/a Play and Copy back Copy back using instruments. Use 1 note: A n/a Revise existing
Bronze Challenge 2 Play and Improvise

Question and Answer using instruments. Use 1 note in your answer: A

Play and Improvise Question and Answer using instruments. Use 1 note in your answer: A n/a
Bronze Challenge 3 Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using 1 note: A

Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using 1 note: A

n/a
Silver Challenge 1 Play and Copy back

Copy back using instruments. Use 2 notes: A and G

Play and Copy back Copy back using instruments. Use 2 notes: A and G n/a
Silver Challenge 2 Play and Improvise

Question and Answer using instruments. Use 2 notes in your answer: A and G

Play and Improvise Question and Answer using instruments. Use 2 notes in your answer: A and G n/a
Silver Challenge 3 Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using 2 notes: A and G

Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using 2 notes: D and E

n/a
Gold Challenge 1 Play and Copy back

Copy back using instruments. Use 3 notes: A, G and B

Play and Copy back Copy back using instruments. Use 3 notes: A, G and E n/a
Gold Challenge 2 Play and Improvise

Question and Answer using instruments. Use 3 notes in your answer: A, G and B

Play and Improvise Question and Answer using instruments. Use 3 notes in your answer: A, G and E n/a
Gold Challenge 3 Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using 3 notes: A, G and B

Improvise!

Take it in turns to improvise using 3 notes: A, G and E

n/a
Unit 1 2 3 4 5 6
Composing
Starting notes A n/a n/a E n/a Revise existing
Easy option A, G + B n/a n/a E, G + A n/a
Harder option C, E, G, A + B n/a n/a E, G, A, C + D n/a
Supporting Songs and Styles
1 2 3 4 5 6
Happy Classroom Jazz 2 A New Year Carol You’ve Got A Friend Music and Me Reflect, Rewind & Replay
Pop/Neo Soul Bacharach and Blues Classical or Urban Gospel 70s Ballad/Pop Hip Hop, Classical, Electronic, Soul, Contemporary Classical
Top Of The World sung by The Carpenters

Don’t Worry, Be Happy sung by Bobby McFerrin

Walking On Sunshine sung by Katrina And The Waves

When You’re Smiling sung by Frank Sinatra

Love Will Save The Day sung by Brendan Reilly

Take The ‘A’ Train by Duke Ellington

Speaking My Peace by

H. Parlan

Back ‘O’Town Blues by Earl Hines

One ‘O’ Clock Jump by Count Basie

I Mun Be Married on Sunday

Fishing Song

The Loco-Motion sung by Little Eva

One Fine Day sung by The Chiffons

Up On The Roof sung by The Drifters

Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow

(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman sung by Carole King

Something Helpful by Anna Meredith

O by Shiva Feshareki

V-A-C Moscow by Shiva Feshareki

Heroes & Villains by Eska

Shades Of Blue by Eska

And! by Afrodeutsche

The Middle Middle by Afrodeutsche

L'autrier Pastoure Seoit (The Other Day a Shepherdess Was Sitting) – Traditional – Early Music

Armide Overture by Jean-Baptiste Lully – Baroque

The Marriage of Figaro: Overture by Mozart – Classical

Erlkönig, D.328 Op. 1 Wer reitet so spät by Franz Schubert – Romantic

Sonata for Horn in F by Paul Hindemith – 20th century

Homelands by Nitin Sawhney – Contemporary

Listen and Appraise
Knowledge Skills
  • To know five songs from memory, who sang or wrote them, when they were written and why?
  • To know the style of the songs and to name other songs from the Units in those styles.
  • To choose three or four other songs and be able to talk about:
    • The style indicators of the songs (musical characteristics that give the songs their style)
    • The lyrics: what the songs are about
    • Any musical dimensions featured in the songs and where they are used (texture, dynamics, tempo, rhythm, pitch and timbre)
    • Identify the structure of the songs (intro, verse, chorus etc.)
    • Name some of the instruments used in the songs
    • The historical context of the songs. What else was going on at this time, musically and historically?
    • Know and talk about that fact that we each have a musical identity
  • To identify and move to the pulse with ease.
  • To think about the message of songs.
  • To compare two songs in the same style, talking about what stands out musically in each of them, their similarities and differences.
  • Listen carefully and respectfully to other people’s thoughts about the music.
  • Use musical words when talking about the songs.
  • To talk about the musical dimensions working together in the Unit songs.
  • Talk about the music and how it makes you feel, using musical language to describe the music.
Games
Knowledge Skills
Know and be able to talk about:

  • How pulse, rhythm, pitch, tempo, dynamics, texture and structure work together to create a song or music
  • How to keep the internal pulse
  • Musical Leadership: creating musical ideas for the group to copy or respond to
Using the Warm up Games tracks provided, complete the Bronze, Silver and Gold Challenges. Children will complete the following in relation to the main song, using three notes:

  • Bronze Challenge
    • Find the pulse
    • Copy back rhythms based on the words of the main song, that include syncopation/off beat
    • Copy back one-note riffs using simple and syncopated rhythm patterns
  • Silver Challenge
    • Find the pulse
    • Lead the class by inventing rhythms for others to copy back
    • Copy back two-note riffs by ear and with notation
    • Question and answer using two different notes
  • Gold Challenge
    • Find the pulse
    • Lead the class by inventing rhythms for them to copy back
    • Copy back three-note riffs by ear and with notation
    • Question and answer using three different notes
Singing
Knowledge Skills
  • To know and confidently sing five songs and their parts from memory, and to sing them with a strong internal pulse.
  • To know about the style of the songs so you can represent the feeling and context to your audience
  • To choose a song and be able to talk about:
    • Its main features
    • Singing in unison, the solo, lead vocal, backing vocals or rapping
    • To know what the song is about and the meaning of the lyrics
    • To know and explain the importance of warming up your voice
  • To sing in unison and to sing backing vocals.
  • To demonstrate a good singing posture.
  • To follow a leader when singing.
  • To experience rapping and solo singing.
  • To listen to each other and be aware of how you fit into the group.
  • To sing with awareness of being ‘in tune’.
Playing
Knowledge Skills
To know and be able to talk about:

  • Different ways of writing music down – e.g. staff notation, symbols
  • The notes C, D, E, F, G, A, B + C on the treble stave
  • The instruments they might play or be played in a band or orchestra or by their friends
  • Play a musical instrument with the correct technique within the context of the Unit song.
  • Select and learn an instrumental part that matches their musical challenge, using one of the differentiated parts – a one-note, simple or medium part or the melody of the song from memory or using notation.
  • To rehearse and perform their part within the context of the Unit song.
  • To listen to and follow musical instructions from a leader.
  • To lead a rehearsal session.
Improvisation
Knowledge Skills
To know and be able to talk about improvisation:

  • Improvisation is making up your own tunes on the spot
  • When someone improvises, they make up their own tune that has never been heard before. It is not written down and belongs to them.
  • To know that using one, two or three notes confidently is better than using five
  • To know that if you improvise using the notes you are given, you cannot make a mistake
  • To know that you can use some of the riffs and licks you have learnt in the Challenges in your improvisations
  • To know three well-known improvising musicians
Improvise using instruments in the context of a song to be performed. Use the improvisation tracks provided and improvise using the Bronze, Silver or Gold Challenges.

  1. Play and Copy Back
    • Bronze – Copy back using instruments. Use one note.
    • Silver – Copy back using instruments. Use the two notes.
    • Gold – Copy back using instruments. Use the three notes.
  2. Play and Improvise You will be using up to three notes:
    • Bronze – Question and Answer using instruments. Use one note in your answer.
    • Silver – Question and Answer using instruments. Use two notes in your answer. Always start on a G.
    • Gold – Question and Answer using instruments. Use three notes in your answer. Always start on a G.
  3. Improvisation! You will be using up to three notes. The notes will be provided on-screen and in the lesson plan:
    • Bronze – Improvise using one note.
    • Silver – Improvise using two notes.
    • Gold – Improvise using three notes.

Classroom Jazz 2 – Improvise with a feeling for the style of Bossa Nova and Swing using the notes D, E, G, A + B (pentatonic scale/a five-note pattern)

Composition
Knowledge Skills
To know and be able to talk about:

  • A composition: music that is created by you and kept in some way. It’s like writing a story. It can be played or performed again to your friends.
  • A composition has pulse, rhythm and pitch that work together and are shaped by tempo, dynamics, texture and structure
  • Notation: recognise the connection between sound and symbol
  • Create simple melodies using up to five different notes and simple rhythms that work musically with the style of the Unit song.
  • Explain the keynote or home note and the structure of the melody.
  • Listen to and reflect upon the developing composition and make musical decisions about how the melody connects with the song.
  • Record the composition in any way appropriate that recognises the connection between sound and symbol (e.g. graphic/pictorial notation).
Performance
Knowledge Skills
To know and be able to talk about:

  • Performing is sharing music with an audience with belief
  • A performance doesn’t have to be a drama! It can be to one person or to each other
  • Everything that will be performed must be planned and learned
  • You must sing or rap the words clearly and play with confidence
  • A performance can be a special occasion and involve an audience including of people you don’t know
  • It is planned and different for each occasion
  • A performance involves communicating ideas, thoughts and feelings about the song/music
  • To choose what to perform and create a programme.
  • To communicate the meaning of the words and clearly articulate them.
  • To talk about the venue and how to use it to best effect.
  • To record the performance and compare it to a previous performance.
  • To discuss and talk musically about it – “What went well?” and “It would have been even better if...?”
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Our agreed consistencies for Music: If you were to walk into a Music lesson at Sandhurst you would see: In our Music curriculum you will see that we value inclusion and diversity:
  • Every class has a weekly music lesson.
  • We use the Charanga scheme to ensure progression and thorough coverage.
  • We have a singing assembly every week.
  • There is an active learning approach to music in EYFS.
  • We promote wider musical opportunities with extra-curricular activities and music related trips.
  • Children actively involved and enjoying lessons.
  • Listening and discussing a range of high-quality music
  • Children warming up their voices to prepare them for singing.
  • The use of tuned or untuned musical instruments.
  • Voices being used expressively and creatively.
  • Children learn ‘musical language’ at an age appropriate level.
  • Music can be accessed by anyone regardless of background or ability.
  • Provision is made for children requiring additional support.
  • All children, regardless of views and ability are encouraged to take part.
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