Reception Music
Autumn Term
Autumn 1
Autumn 2 - Celebration Music
Diwali Music -
To learn about music from another culture and respond to music with movement.
Hanukkah Music -
To learn about music from another culture and to learn the names of some traditional Jewish musical instruments.
Kwanzaa Music -
To take part in a traditional call and response song
To find classroom objects to use as drums and play in response to African music.
Traditional Christmas Music -
To learn about traditional Christmas music.
To take part in a group song involving singing, voice sounds and playing instruments.
Christmas Action Songs
To suggest appropriate actions to match song lyrics.
To sing and move to Christmas songs.
Spring Term
Spring 1 - Exploring Sound
Vocal sounds
To explore our voices to make a variety of sounds.
Body Sounds
To explore how to use our bodies to make sounds.
To explore different sounds and think about tempo.
Instrumental Sounds
To explore the sounds of different instruments.
To experiment with tempo and dynamic when playing instruments.
Environmental sounds
To identify sounds in the environment and differentiate between them.
To use musical vocabulary when describing environmental sounds .
Nature sounds
To identify and describe familiar nature sounds and differentiate between them.
To use voices to imitate natural sounds.
Spring 2 - Music and Movement
Action songs
To understand why songs have actions.
To learn simple Makaton signs to accompany a song.
Finding the beat
To explore beat through body movement
To express feelings and emotions through movement to music.
Exploring tempo
To explore beat through body movement
To express feelings and emotions through movement to music.
Exploring tempo and pitch through dance
To explore pitch and tempo through scarf dancing and body movement.
To express feelings and emotions through movement to music.
Music and movement performance
To perform action songs to a small audience.
Summer Term
Summer 1 - Musical stories
Moving to Music
To listen to the lyrics and melody and recall part of the story.
To move to music with instruction, changing movement to match the tempo, dynamic or pitch of the piece.
To talk about how a piece of music makes you feel.
Using instruments to represent characters.
To listen to the classical piece of music 'Peter and the Wolf and recall the characters of the story'.
To understand that music and instruments can be used to convey moods or represent characters.
To talk about how a piece of music makes you feel.
Storytelling with actions
To use actions to retell a story to music.
To sing and perform a group song.
Using instruments to represent actions.
To learn how instruments can represent a certain mood, character or action.
To experiment with the sounds of different instruments.
Musical story composition
To create a musical story based upon a familiar routine.
To use instruments to represent moods or actions.
To play an instrument as part of a group story.
Musical story performance
To create a musical story based upon a familiar routine.
To use instruments to represent moods or actions.
To play an instrument as part of a group story.
Summer 2 - Big Band
What makes an instrument
To discuss what makes a musical instrument
To use recyclable materials to create a simple musical instrument.
Introduction to the orchestra
To learn what an orchestra is
To learn about the four different groups of musical instruments
Follow the beat
To copy and follow the beat
To follow a beat using an untuned instrument
Tuned and untuned instruments
To experiment with playing tuned and untuned instruments
To play in time to familiar songs
Big band performance
To choose appropriate instruments to represent different parts of a song.
To perform a practised song to a small instrument.