Music

Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity. A high quality music education should engage and inspire pupils to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians, and so increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement. As pupils progress, they should develop a critical engagement with music, allowing them to compose, and to listen with discrimination to the best in the musical canon. (National Curriculum, 2014)

KS1 Music Curriculum 2024-2025

	Autumn 1	Autumn 2	Spring 1	Spring 2	Summer 1	Summer 2
Year 1	Menu Song Focus: Active listening, beat, echo singing, showing pitch moving	Colonel Hathi's March Focus: Beat, March, Timbre, film music Musical Aquarium Focus: Timbre, pitch, structure, graphic symbols, classical music	Football Focus: Beat, Ostinato, pitched/ unpitched patterns, Mi-re-do (notes E-D-C)	Dawn Focus: Beat, Active listening, 20th Century Classical music Musical Conversations Focus: Question and answer, timbre, graphic score	Nautilus Focus: Active listening, electronic music Cat and Mouse Focus: Mood, tempo, dynamics, rhythm, timbre, dot notation	Come Dance with Me Focus: Call and response, echo singing and playing, playing percussion, crochet, quavers, crochet rest, developing beat skills
Year 2	Tony Chestnut Focus: Beat, rhythm, melody, echo, call and response, tuned and untuned percussion	Carnival of the Animals Focus: Timbre, tempo, dynamics, pitch, classical music Composing Music - Birdsong Focus: Composing using nonmusical stimuli, inspired by birdsong and birds, improvising and playing a solo	Grandma Rap Focus: Duration, unison, round	Orawa Focus: Beat, rhythm, repetition, structure, 20th Century classical music Trains Focus: Create music inspired by train travel, volume/dynamics, speed/tempo	Swing along with Shostakovich Focus: 2 and 3 time, beat, beat groupings, 20th Century classical music Charlie Chaplin Focus: Create music to accompany a short film, pitch, duration, dynamics/volume	Tanczymy Labada Focus: Singing games, traditional Polish dances, percussion accompaniment

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Spring 1

Spring 2

Summer 1

Summer 2

Year

Menu Song

Focus: Active listening, beat, echo singing, showing pitch moving

Colonel Hathi's March

Focus: Beat, March, Timbre, film music

Musical Aquarium

Focus: Timbre, pitch, structure, graphic symbols, classical music

Football

Focus: Beat, Ostinato, pitched/ unpitched patterns, Mi-re-do (notes E-D-C)

Dawn

Focus: Beat, Active listening, 20th Century Classical music

Musical Conversations

Focus: Question and answer, timbre, graphic score

Nautilus

Focus: Active listening, electronic music

Cat and Mouse

Focus: Mood, tempo, dynamics, rhythm, timbre, dot notation

Come Dance with Me

Focus: Call and response, echo singing and playing, playing percussion, crochet, quavers, crochet rest, developing beat skills

Year

Tony Chestnut

Focus: Beat, rhythm, melody, echo, call and response, tuned and untuned percussion

Carnival of the Animals

Focus: Timbre, tempo, dynamics, pitch, classical music

Composing Music - Birdsong

Focus: Composing using nonmusical stimuli, inspired by birdsong and birds, improvising and playing a solo

Grandma Rap

Focus: Duration, unison, round

Orawa

Focus: Beat, rhythm, repetition, structure, 20th Century classical music

Trains

Focus: Create music inspired by train travel, volume/dynamics, speed/tempo

Swing along with Shostakovich

Focus: 2 and 3 time, beat, beat groupings, 20th Century classical music

Charlie Chaplin

Focus: Create music to accompany a short film, pitch, duration, dynamics/volume

Tanczymy Labada

Focus: Singing games, traditional Polish dances, percussion accompaniment