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Music lessons in year 3...
By the end of Year 3 will
Listen and Appraise: Appreciate and understand a variety of musical styles from different times and traditions.
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 Term
Autumn 1 - Mountain Melodies - Steps and Leaps
Autumn 1 - Mountain Melodies - Steps and Leaps
Exploring pitch through musical mountains, combining steps and leaps to create a melody
Singing in three parts
To keep a steady beat when singing with others.
Melodic mountains
To explore pitch by drawing melodic lines.
Dynamic landscapes
To explore dynamics through singing and movement.
Steps and leaps
To plan a melody using small steps and leaps in pitch.
Compose and perform
To create and perform a vocal composition inspired by mountains.
Autumn 2 -Reading Rhythms: Patterns and layers
Autumn 2 -Reading Rhythms: Patterns and layers
Telling stories through music
To tell a story from a piece of music through movement.
Creating a soundscape
To create a soundscape using percussion instruments.
Story sound effects
To create a range of sounds to accompany a story.
Adding rhythm
To compose and perform a rhythm to accompany a story.
Musical mountain
To compose and notate a short melody to accompany a story
Spring Term
Spring Term
Spring 1 - Inspired by India: Musical Improvisations
Spring 1 - Inspired by India: Musical Improvisations
Introduction to traditional Indian Music
To improvise using musical features common in North Indian music
Improvising a melody
To improvise a simple melody using a pentatonic scale.
Exploring drone and tala sounds
To write and perform a pentatonic melody.
Enter the dragon
To perform a group composition.
Final performance
To perform a piece of music as part of a group.
Spring 2 - Jazz
Spring 2 - Jazz
Ragtime
To sing and clap a syncopated rhythm for a ragtime style song.
Traditional jazz
To improvise a call and response.
Scat singing
To be able to scat sing using the call and response format.
Jazz Motifs
To create a jazz motif.
Swung rhythms
To create a jazz motif.
Summer Term
Summer Term
Summer 1- Reggae Rhythms: Playing in a band
Summer 1- Reggae Rhythms: Playing in a band
Playing a bass line
To keep the beat whilst performing a reggae bass line.
Playing chords
To play a pattern of two note chords in time with a reggae song.
Playing off beat rhythms
To play off beat chords following a given pattern
Writing lyrics
To write song lyrics inspired by reggae music
Practise and perform
To perform a piece of music as a band
Summer 2 - To perform a piece of music using musical notationAdapting and transposing motifs (Romans)
Summer 2 - To perform a piece of music using musical notationAdapting and transposing motifs (Romans)
Here come the Romans
To sing in tune and in time.
Musical Motifs
To understand what a musical motif is.
Motifs and mosaics
To compose and notate a motif.
Motif development
To develop and transpose a musical motif
Combine and perform
To combine and perform different versions of a musical motif
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