Year 5 Music

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 1 - Composition and notation (Ancient Eygpt)

Here come the Eygptians

To sing with accuracy, fluency, control and expression.

Hieroglyphic score

To explore and use different forms of notation.

Play like an Eygpitan

To understand note length.

Pitch pyramids

To read simple pitch notation.

Eygptian farewell

To use hieroglyphs and stave notation to write a piece of music.

Autumn 2 - Blues

History of the Blues

To know the key features of Blues music.

Playing a chord

To play the first line of the 12-bar Blues.

The 12 bar blues

To be able to play the 12-bar Blues.

Blues scales

To be able to play the Blues scale.

Improvisation and the blues

To be able to improvise with noted from the Blues scales.

Spring Term

Spring 1 - To perform music with confidence and discipline Looping and remixing

Body percussion loops

To be able to play a simple looped rhythm from notation.

Mixing loops

To create a piece of music using pre-written loops.

Learning the original

To be able to play a melody line accurately and fluently.

Looping fragments

To select a section of a tune and perform it as a loop.

Remix

To combine loops to create a remix.

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 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

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.