Year 3 Music

Music lessons in year 3...

By the end of Year 3 will

                                                      They will continue to recognise the sound of musical instruments and basic features of key musical styles.

2.  Musical Activities:     Learn to sing and use their voices to create and compose music on their own and with others.

                                                      Have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument.

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

3. Perform and share: Use their voices expressively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes.

                                                 Play tuned and un-tuned instruments musically.

Autumn Term

Autumn 1 - Ballads

To use musical vocabulary to explain the stylistic features of a ballad.

To explore how actions can impact performance.

To plan a musical structure inspired by a story.

To create lyrics that match a melody.

To show awareness of style, structure and features to perform a ballad.


Autumn 2 - To combine and perform different versions of a musical motif. To take part in a group performance. Creating compositions (Mountains)

To tell a story from a piece of music through movement.

To create a soundscape using percussion instruments.

To create a range of sounds to accompany a story.

To compose and perform a rhythm to accompany a story.

To compose and notate a short melody to accompany a story


Spring Term

Spring 1 - Pentatonic melodies and composition

To learn about the music used to celebrate Chinese New Year.

To play a pentatonic melody.

To write and perform a pentatonic melody.

To perform a group composition.

To perform a piece of music as part of a group.

Spring 2 - Jazz


To sing and clap a syncopated rhythm for a ragtime style song.

To improvise a call and response.

To be able to scat sing using the call and response format.

To create a jazz motif.

To create a jazz motif.

Summer Term

Summer 1- Traditional instruments and improvisation (India)

To explain an opinion of Indian music.

To be able to improvise using given notes.

To be able to improvise using given notes.

To create a piece of music using a drone, rag and tal.


Summer 2 - To perform a piece of music using musical notationAdapting and transposing motifs (Romans)

To sing in tune and in time.

To understand what a musical motif is.

To compose and notate a motif.

To develop and transpose a musical motif

To combine and perform different versions of a musical motif