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Year 4 |
Year 5 |
Year 6 |
Listening and Responding
Essential elements of Rhythm, Pitch, Volume, Tempo, Dynamics, Texture and Form. |
Recognises and uses the musical terms piano/forte; distinguishes between rhythm and pulse; recognises where the pulse accelerates or slows;
recognises tune and accompaniment; recognises and identifies the four families of the orchestra by sound. |
Recognises and uses the musical terms mezzo, crescendo, decrescendo; recognises the sounds of the major orchestral instruments; recognises major and minor. |
Recognises and uses the musical terms accelerando and ritardando; differentiates between a pulse of 3 and 4. |
Singing
Correct vocal technique, breath control, tone, intonation and posture to sing in class, a group and solo. |
Sings from conventional notation with increasing awareness of good vocal technique; repertoire includes rounds and simple part-singing. |
Sings from conventional notation with increasing awareness of good vocal technique; repertoire includes rounds, part-singing and partner songs. |
Sings from conventional notation with increasing awareness of good vocal technique; maintains a part with others; is beginning to sight-read with rhythmic accuracy. |
Creating
Create and improvise music using rhythm, pitch, texture and tempo. |
Imitates and improvises longer rhythmic and melodic patterns with percussion, voice and recorder; reflects on original musical ideas; creates simple ostinati with body and untuned percussion. |
Imitates and improvises phrases on percussion, voice and recorder; reflects on ideas; creates more complex ostinato patterns. |
Imitates and improvises phrases on percussion, voice and treble recorder; reflects on ideas; creates ostinato patterns on tuned percussion. |
Playing
Classroom percussion instruments, the recorder family, electric keyboards and orchestral instruments. |
Plays the first 5 notes on the descant recorder from conventional notation; plays all naturals on the glockenspiel and xylophone; maintains simple ostinato patterns with others; demonstrates appropriate technique; plays the first 5 notes of C major on the keyboard from conventional notation; plays a single-finger chordal accompaniment. |
Plays a whole octave on the recorder from conventional notation; plays the whole range of classroom percussion including marimba using appropriate techniques; maintains more complex ostinato patterns; increases range of notes and accompaniments on the keyboard. |
Plays the first 5 notes of C major on the treble recorder from conventional notation; plays in a class ensemble adding orchestral instruments to class percussion; plays keyboard in several different hand positions; is beginning to identify suitable accompaniments for keyboard melodies; maintains ostinato patterns in tuned and untuned percussion. |
Reading and Notating
Identify the pitch and value of notes and understand music directions of tempo, expression and interpretation in reading and writing; use suitable technology to notate and record music. |
Recognises, reads and writes the recorder and keyboard notes learned together with their durations. |
Recognises, reads and writes the recorder and keyboard notes learned together with their durations and performance directions. |
Recognises, reads and writes the recorder and keyboard notes learned together with their durations and performance directions; recognises, reads and writes notes on a score for instruments in the class ensemble. |
Analysing
and Appreciating
Identify and analyse a variety of music works,
both choral and instrumental, and identify their forms. |
Responds to and discusses different music works, identifying key musical characteristics. |
Responds to and discusses different music works, identifying key musical characteristics and key elements; identifies key themes from several composers and has knowledge of their lives. |
Responds to and discusses conventional and modern music works, identifying key musical characteristics and key elements; builds on knowledge of key composers from major historical styles and their life and works. |