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.