Reception Music

Autumn 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. 

Autumn 2 - Celebration Music

• Diwali Music - 

Learn about the festival of Diwali and respond to music through movement

• Hanukkah Music - 

Learn some of the dances and instruments from the festival of Hanukkah

• 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 1 - Music and Movement

• Action songs

Learn why songs have actions and some simple Makaton signs to accompany a song.

• Finding the beat

Explore the beat through body movement

• Exploring tempo

Learn to recognise and react to different tempos in music

• Exploring tempo and pitch through dance

Learn to express different pitch and tempo in music through dance

• Music and movement performance

Perform two movement and movement songs.

Spring 2 - Transport

• Exploring the sounds of transport

Exploring the sounds of different types of vehicles

• Trains

Exploring and mimicking the sounds of a train.

• Boats

Exploring sounds heard on and around boats

• Cars

Interpreting symbols to reflect a cars journey

• Transport Journey

Demonstrating simple rhythms on an instrument

Summer 1 - Musical stories

• Moving to Music

Listen to the lyrics and melody of  the 'Teddy Bears Picnic' and follow instructions to move to the music, changing their movements to reflect the tempo, pitch or dynamic of the piece

• Storytelling with actions

Use actions to tell the story of 'The Sleeping Princess' before singing and performing a group song based on the story.

• Using instruments to represent actions

Children are divided into small groups and allocated a section of the story 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' with corresponding instruments to play.

• Musical story composition

To create a musical story based upon a familiar routine.

• 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.