Year 1 Music
Music lessons in year 1...
By the end of Year 1 children will
Listen and appraise. Listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high quality live and recorded music.
Musical Activities. Use their voices expressively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes. Play tuned and un-tuned 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.
Perform and Share: Use their voices expressively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes. Play tuned and un-tuned instruments.
Autumn Term
Autumn 1 - Pulse and Rhythm (All about me)
Pulse and Rhythm: My Favourite Things
To use my voice and hands to make music.
Pulse and Rhythm: You've Got a Friend
To clap and play in time to the music.
Pulse and Rhythm: Dance, Dance, Dance
To play simple rhythms on an instrument.
Pulse and Rhythm: Happy
To listen and repeat short rhythmic patterns.
Pulse and Rhythm: Practise makes perfect
To understand the difference between pulse and rhythm.
Autumn 2 - Tempo (Snail and Mouse)
Snail and Mouse
To explore using voices and bodies expressively.
Exploring rhyme with Snail and Mouse
To practise a rhyme using fast and slow beats on instruments.
Singing Snail and Mouse
To use voices to perform a song with a fast and slow beat.
Performing Snail and Mouse
To use singing voices and an instrument to perform a song with a fast and slow beat.
The story of Snail and Mouse
To demonstrate fast and slow beats within the context of a story.
Spring Term
Spring 1 - Musical Vocabulary (Under the sea)
Pulse and tempo: Dive into danger!
To learn the musical tempo vocabulary pulse and tempo
Dynamics and Timbre: Underwater world
To explain what dynamics and timbre are
Pitch and Rhythm: Underwater world
To explain what pitch and rhythm are
Texture and Structure: Coral Reef
To explain what texture and structure are
Musical Vocabulary
To understand key musical vocabulary; dynamics, pitch, pulse, rhythm, structure, tempo, texture, timbre
Spring 2 - Timbre and rhythmic patterns (Faitytales)
Timbre and rhythmic patterns: Character voices
To use voices expressively to speak and chant.
Timbre and rhythmic patterns: Starting with instruments
To select suitable instrumental sounds to represent a character
Timbre and Rhythmic patterns: Rhythm
To compose and play a rhythm.
Timbre and Rhythmic patterns: Responding to Music
To recognise how timbre is used to represent characters in a piece of music.
Timbre and Rhythmic patterns: Keeping the pulse
To keep the pulse using untuned instruments.
Summer Term
Summer 1 - Pitch and Tempo (Superheroes)
Pitch and Tempo: High Fliers
To understand the concept of pitch.
Pitch and Tempo: Pitch patterns
To create a pattern using two pitches.
Pitch and Tempo: Faster than a speeding bullet
To understand the concept of tempo.
Pitch and Tempo: Superhero Theme Tune
To create a superhero theme tune.
Pitch and Tempo: Final performance
To perform confidently as part of a group
Summer 2 - Vocal and body sounds (By the sea)
The Sea: Vocal and Body sounds
To understand that music can be used to represent an environment.
Vocal and Body sounds: Embodying the sea
To understand how music can represent changes in an environment.
Vocal and Body Sounds: Musical treasure hunt
To select instruments to match seaside sounds.
Vocal and Body sounds: Seaside story
To recognise and use dynamics and tempo.
Vocal and Body sounds: Seaside soundscape
To write music down and perform from a graphic score.