| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
3 AJA | Writing Down Music | Playing in a Band | Compose Using Your Imagination | More Musical Styles | Enjoying Improvisation | Opening Night |
Key Learning for Year 3: understand the beginnings of formal notation; play and sing in 2/4. 3/4 and 4/4 time; to copy back and improvise with rhythmic patterns; recognise and move in time to the beat; begin to recognise minims, crotchets, quavers and their rests; identify the names of some pitched notes. |
4 AJA | Musical Structures | Exploring Feelings When You Play | Compose With Your Friends | Feelings Through Music | Expression and Improvisation | The Show Must Go On! |
Year 4 have weekly clarinet lessons with Derby & Derbyshire Music Partnership Key Learning for year 4: understand the beginnings of formal notation; basic music theory; play and sing in 2/4, 3/4 and 4/4 time; copy back and improvise rhythmic patterns; move in time to a steady beat in 4/4, 3/4 and 2/4 time; begin to recognise minims, crotchets, quavers and their rests; identify the names of some pitched notes |
5 AJA | Melody and Harmony in Music | Sing and Play in Different Styles | Composing and Chords | Enjoying Musical Styles | Freedom to Improvise | Battle of the Bands! |
Key learning for Year 5: find and keep a steady beat; listen to and copy rhythmic patterns; copy back various melodic patterns; talk about feelings created by music; justify personal opinions; to find and demonstrate a steady beat; to identify a musical styles; identify instruments by ear; to discuss the structure of music; to explain a bridge passage and its position; to recall by ear memorable phrases of music; identify major and minor tonalities; to recognise the pentatonic and blues scales; to explain the role of a main theme; understand what a musical introduction is |
6 AJA | Music and Technology | Developing Ensemble Skills | Creative Composition | Musical Styles Connect Us | Improvising With Confidence | Farewell Tour |
Key learning for Year 6: to use body percussion, instruments and voices; understand major and minor key centres; time signatures of 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/8; to find and keep a steady beat; to listen to and copy rhythmic patterns; to talk about feelings created by music; to justify a personal opinion; to identify 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4 and 6/8; to identify the musical style of a song; to identify some instruments by ear; to discuss the structure of music; explain a bridge passage and its position in a song; to recall by ear memorable phrases; to identify major and minor tonalities; to explain the role of a main theme; to understand musical introductions and outros; identify the sound of different styles of music |
