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 - 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 1 - South and West Africa

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

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.