EYFS

• To recognise that a range of technology is used in places such as homes and schools. They select and use technology for particular purposes.

• To safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.

• To use what they have learnt about media and materials in original ways, thinking about uses and purposes. They represent their own ideas, thoughts and feelings through design and technology, art, music, dance, role play and stories.

KS1

Pupils should be taught to:

• Use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes

• Play tuned and untuned instruments musically

• Listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music

• Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music.

KS2

Pupils should be taught to:

• Play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression

• Improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music

• Listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory

• Use and understand staff and other musical notations

• Appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians

• Develop an understanding of the history of music.

EYFS

By the end of EYFS children will be able to:

• Imitate movement in response to music.

• Demonstrate a preference for forms of expression.

• Begin to build a repertoire of dances.

Year 1

By the end of Year 1 children will be able to:

• Learn how to enjoy moving to music by dancing, marching, being animals or pop stars.

Year 2

By the end of Year 2 children will be able to:

• Learn how to enjoy moving to music by dancing, marching, being animals or pop stars.

• Learn how songs can tell a story or describe an idea.

Year 3

By the end of Year 3 children will be able to:

• To identify and move to the pulse.

• Think about what the words of a song mean.

• Take it in turns to discuss how a song makes them feel.

• Listen carefully and respectfully to other people’s thoughts about music.

Year 4

By the end of Year 4 children will be able to:

• Confidently identify and move to the pulse.

• Talk about the musical dimensions working together in the song they are studying e.g. the use of dynamics in the chorus.

• Talk about music and how it makes them feel.

• When discussing music, to try to use musical vocabulary.

Year 5

By the end of Year 5 children will be able to:

• Think about the message of songs.

• Compare two songs in the same style, talking about what stands out musically in each of them, their similarities and differences.

• Confidently use musical vocabulary when discussing music.

Year 6

By the end of Year 6 children will be able to:

• Develop Year 5 skills and be able to use them independently and confidently in lessons.

EYFS

By the end of EYFS children will be able to:

• Explore the different sounds of instruments.

Year 1

By the end of Year 1 children will be able to:

• Find the pulse.

• Listen, copy and create rhythms.

• Listen and sing back a melody.

• Vocal warm ups.

Year 2

By the end of Year 2 children will be able to:

• Find the pulse.

• Listen to the rhythm and clap back.

• Copy short rhythmic phrases based on words, with one and two syllables, whilst marching to a steady beat.

• Listen and sing back a melody.

• Vocal warm ups.

Year 3

By the end of Year 3 children will be able to:

• Clap and say back rhythms.

• Create their own simple rhythmic patterns and lead the class or a group in using these.

• Listen and sing back both without and with notation.

• Vocal warm ups.

Year 4

By the end of Year 4 children will be able to:

• Create and lead the class in using their own simple rhythms.

• Listen and copy back with instruments, without and with notation.

• Vocal warm ups.

Year 5

By the end of Year 5 children will be able to:

• Copy back one-note riffs using simple and syncopated rhythm patterns.

• Questioning and answering using two or three different notes.

Year 6

By the end of Year 5 children will be able to:

• Copy back one-note riffs using simple and syncopated rhythm patterns.

• Questioning and answering using two or three different notes.

EYFS

By the end of EYFS the children will be able to:

• Sing a few familiar songs.

• Sing to self and make up simple songs.

• Begin to build a repertoire of songs.

Year 1

By the end of Year 1 the children will be able to:

• Learn about voices and sing notes of different pitches.

• Learn to make different sounds with voices e.g. rapping.

• Learn to start and stop singing when following a leader.

Year 2

By the end of Year 2 the children will be able to:

• Learn about voices and sing notes of different pitches.

• Learn to make different sounds with voices e.g. rapping.

• Learn to find a comfortable singing position.

• Learn to start and stop singing when following a leader.

Year 3

By the end of Year 3 the children will be able to:

• Sing in unison and in simple two-parts.

• Demonstrate a good singing posture.

• Follow a leader when singing.

• Explore singing solo.

• Sing with an awareness of being ‘in tune’.

• Have an awareness of the pulse when singing.

Year 4

By the end of Year 4 the children will be able to:

• Continue to develop the skills introduced in Year 3.

• Be able to rejoin the song if lost.

• Be able to listen to the rest of the group when singing.

Year 5

By the end of Year 5 the children will be able to:

• Sing in unison and to sing backing vocals.

• Show confidence when singing solo.

• Experience rapping and solo singing.

• Listen to each other and be aware of how they fit into the group.

Year 6

By the end of Year 6 the children will be able to:

• Develop Year 5 skills and use them independently and confidently in lessons.

EYFS

By the end of EYFS the children will be able to:

• Explore the different sounds of instruments

Year 1

By the end of Year 1 the children will be able to:

• Treat instruments respectfully and carefully.

• Play a tuned instrumental part with the song they are performing.

• Learn to play an instrumental part.

• Listen to, and follow, musical instructions from a leader.

Year 2

By the end of Year 2 the children will be able to:

• Learn how to treat instruments respectfully and carefully.

• Play a tuned instrumental part with the song they are performing.

• Play a part in time with a steady pulse.

• Listen to, and follow, a musical leader.

Year 3

By the end of Year 3 the children will be able to:

• Play different parts on a tuned instrument, from memory or using notation.

• Rehearse and perform a part within a context of the song being learnt.

Year 4

By the end of Year 4 the children will be able to:

• Play a part or the melody of the song being learnt either from memory or using notation.

• Listen and follow musical instructions from a leader.

• Experience and practise leading  playing.

Year 5

By the end of Year 5 the children will be able to:

• To play an instrument with the correct technique within the context of the song being learnt.

• Select and learn, rehearse and perform an instrumental part.

• To lead a rehearsal session.

Year 6

By the end of Year 6 the children will be able to:

• To develop Year 5 skills and use them independently and confidently in lessons.

• To confidently lead a rehearsal session.

EYFS

By the end of EYFS the children will be able to:

• Sing to self and make up simple songs.

Year 1

By the end of Year 1 the children will be able to:

• Listen and clap back, then listen and clap their own answer.

• Use voices and instruments listen and play their own answer using one or two notes.

Year 2

By the end of Year 2 the children will be able to:

• Listen and clap back, then listen and clap their own answer.

• Use voices and instruments listen and play their own answer using one or two notes.

• Improvise using one or two notes.

Year 3

By the end of Year 3 the children will be able to:

• Use instruments to listen and play back their own response using two or three different notes.

Year 4

By the end of Year 4 the children will be able to:

• Use voices and instruments to improvise using up to three different notes.

Year 5

By the end of Year 5 the children will be able to:

• Copy back and improvise using three notes.

• Understand the mood of different styles of music, e.g. Bossa Nova, and be able to recreate this in an improvisation.

Year 6

By the end of Year 6 the children will be able to:

• Develop Year 5 skills and use them independently and confidently in lessons.

• Be able to use a keynote in improvisation.