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By the end of year 5 children will be able to
Listen and Appraise: Appreciate and understand a wide range of high quality live and recorded music from different traditions and from great musicians and composers .
Develop an understanding of the history of music.
Musical Activities: Improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the interrelated dimensions of music.
Listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory.
Use and understand staff and other musical notations.
Perform and Share: Play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression.
Autumn Term
Autumn Term
Autumn 1 Music in Nature: Chords and Melodies
Autumn 1 Music in Nature: Chords and Melodies
Exploring natures dynamics
To explore how dynamics can be used to reflect changes in nature.
Cloud songs
To create and perform short melodies that reflect the mood of different clouds.
Creating contrast with clouds
To create a nature inspired chord pattern using two contrasting chords.
Composing the forest
To perform a melody that represents the forest.
Northern Lights
To create and perform music inspired by the Northern Lights using, melody, chords and a drone.
Autumn 2 - Three Chord Pop: Playing in a band
Autumn 2 - Three Chord Pop: Playing in a band
Singing Pop
To apply simple singing techniques when singing a pop song
Playing a pop bass line
To play a pop bass line by following a given pattern
Playing pop chords
To play a chord sequence by following a given pattern in a pop song.
Rehearsal and performance techniques
To develop techniques for rehearsing and performing in a group.
Pop star performance
To create energy in a performance by using contrast
Spring Term
Spring Term
Spring 1 - West African Rhythms: Create, perform and play
Spring 1 - West African Rhythms: Create, perform and play
Shosholoza a cappella
To sing a traditional African song unaccompanied.
Playing Shosholoza
To use tuned percussion to play a chord progression.
The Shosholoza show
To use vocals or tuned percussion to perform a piece of music as an ensemble.
Drumming away to Africa
To play call and respones rhythms using percussion instruments.
Eight beat breaks
To create an eight beat break to play within a performance
Spring 2 - Musical Theatre
Spring 2 - Musical Theatre
What is musical theatre
To understand the history of musical theatre
Character or action song
To identify character songs and action songs
Create your own musical
To create a musical theatre scene
Rehearsing my musical
To rehearse a musical theatre scene
Performing my musical
To perform a musical theatre scene
Summer Term
Summer Term
Summer 1
Summer 1
Whole Class Brass Project
Rochdale Music Service are coming into school to deliver the 'Brass Project'. Each child will learn how to play a Brass Instrument and begin to read notation.
Summer 2
Summer 2
Whole Class Brass Project
Rochdale Music Service are coming into school to deliver the 'Brass Project'. Each child will learn how to play a Brass Instrument and begin to read notation.
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