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 - Keeping the pulse (My favourite things)

Can you find the pulse

To demonstrate an understanding of pulse using parts of the body.

Singing a sound pattern

To keep a pulse and show a sound pattern using bodies and voices.

Using a thinking voice

To explore using a thinking voice to show the pulse

Reading sound patterns

To play short rhythms in time with the pulse

Practise makes perfect

To demonstrate an understanding of pulse through performance.

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 - Dynamics (Seaside)

Vocal and body sounds

To understand how music can be used to represent an envirnonment

Embodying the seaside

To understand how music can represent changes in an environment.

Musical treasure hunt

To explore using instruments, body and voice to create a seaside soundscape.

Seaside story

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.