Music Curriculum Map 2017/18

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1 Term In School: Ways to help at home: 1 Autumn Ourselves Explore ways of using their voices expressively. Sing with actions and create an expressive story. Number Develop a sense of a steady beat through using movement, body percussion and instruments. Animals Develop an understanding of pitch through using movement, body percussion and instruments. Weather Use voices, movements and instruments to explore different ways that music can be used to describe the weather. Spring Machines Explore beat through movement, body percussion and instruments. Combine steady beat with word rhythms and explore changes in tempo. Seasons Explore pitch through singing, tuned percussion and listening games. Our School Explore sounds found in the school environment. Investigate ways to produce and record sounds, using IT to stimulate musical ideas related to geography. Pattern Develop an understanding of metre groups of steady beats through counting, Sing a range of songs with your child, adding in actions for the words. Listen to a variety of music and encourage your child to clap a steady beat to accompany the music. Help your child to understand how high or low a note is by making high and low shapes with their body. Look at the weather outside. Encourage your child to make sounds to represent the weather that day using their voice and their body. When out and about, listen to the sounds different machines make. Can your child use body sounds to replicate these sounds? Discuss the different seasons we have in the year as well as the different types of weathers. Can you make sounds to represent the different noises that weather can make? Explore different sounds in the home e.g. washing machine, food mixer etc.

2 body percussion and reading scores. Summer Storytime Learn how music can be used to tell a story. Identify contrasts of fast and slow, loud and quiet, leading to a performance. Our Bodies Respond with bodies to steady beats and rhythm in music. Travel Develop performance skills and learn songs about travel and transport from around the world. Water Use voices, movement and instruments to explore changes of pitch. Develop a performance with different vocal pitch shapes and tuned percussion. 2 Autumn Ourselves Discover ways to use voices to describe feeling and moods. Create and notate vocal sounds, building to a performance. Toys Move and play to a steady beat and to sound sequences. Learn to control changing tempo as they take a scooter ride. Our Land Explore timbre and texture as they explore descriptive sounds. Listen to, and perform, music inspired by myths. Our Bodies Develop a sense of steady beats using their own bodies. Respond to music and play rhythm patters on body percussion and When reading stories, ask your child to make sounds to accompany the story, e.g. We re Going on a Bear Hunt and Peace At Last. When going on a journey e.g. in the car, train, bike etc, explore sounds that the different types of transport make. Listen to the different sounds that are make when it rains, e.g. tapping on the window. Replicate these sounds using objects around the home. Listen to a piece of music and discuss the mood and feelings the music creates. Listen to the different sounds your child s toys make. Discuss those sounds that speed up or slow down. Read a myth to your child. Ask your child to accompany the myth with a range of sounds.

3 Spring Summer instruments. Animals Link animal movement with pitch movement to help develop understanding and recognition of changing pitch. Interpret pitch line notation using voices and tuned instruments. Number Explore steady beat and rhythm patterns. Play beats and patterns from Renaissance Italy to West Africa. Create own beats and patterns using body percussion, voices and instruments. Storytime Introduction to famous pieces to stimulate composition. Interpret a story board with sound effects. Develop own ideas using voices and percussion. Seasons Develop understanding of pitch through movement, songs and listening games. Become familiar with pitch shapes and perform them in a variety of musical arrangements. Weather create descriptive sounds and word rhythms with raps and songs about the weather. Create a descriptive class composition using voices and instruments. Pattern Use simple notations to play, create and combine minibeast rhythms using body Look at the way a range of animals move. Discuss whether the movement relates to a high pitched sound or a low pitched sound. Listen to a range of music from around the world e.g. YouTube. Create a range of sounds using objects around the house. Can your child tell a story to match the sounds? Discuss the different seasons through the year. Can you make a range of sounds to match the different seasons? Look at weather poems. Can you use the ideas in the poems and turn them into a rap?

4 percussion and instruments. Water Sing and play a variety of pitch shapes, using movement and reading from scores. Create a class composition which describes the sounds and creatures of a pond. Travel Learn a Tanzanian game song and accompany a travelling song using voices and instruments. Listen to an orchestral piece and improvise descriptive theme park music. 3 Autumn Environment Explore songs and poems about places. Create accompaniments and sound pictures to reflect sounds in their local environment. Building Explore the sights and sounds of building sites, creating rhythms, singing and composing. Sounds Explore timbre and structure through musical conversations in music from around the world. Poetry Explore contrasting poems. Use voices, body percussion, instruments and movement to create expressive performances. Investigate different ways water makes sounds e.g. waterfalls, dripping tap. Replicate these sounds using household objects. Listen to an orchestral piece of music. Discuss the different types of instruments that can be heard in the music. Listen to sounds in the environment. Draw a picture to represent the sounds you hear. Use body sounds to create the sounds of the environment. Think about the sounds you might hear at a building site. Discuss types of sounds and whether they are loud or quiet sounds. Listen to music from around the world. Read a variety of poems. Can you create a performance of your chosen poem with a range of sounds to accompany the poem.

5 Spring Summer China Explore the pentatonic scale (5 notes). Listen to tradition Chinese music, sing, read and compose music. Time Develop an understanding of beat and rhythm. In the Past Compose three-note melodies, learn basic dance steps and prepare a performance. Communication Make music inspired by technology and computing. Explore and compose sounds for emoticons, mobile phone ringtones, computer games and apps. Human Body Explore the human body through skeleton dances and songs. Use percussion instruments to improvise, create word rhythms, and build a final skeleton dance. Singing French Enhance language learning through songs. Children are introduced to French greetings, vocabulary and numbers as they play lively singing games. Ancient Worlds Explore Ancient Greece with music inspired by Orpheus, Echo and Theseus. The children compose a song cycle and a round, and compose their own ostinati. Food and Drink Explore chants, songs and Listen to traditional Chinese music e.g. on YouTube. Listen to the ticking clock. Can you clap the steady beat the clock makes? Listen to a piece of music and clap the steady beat within the music. Explore music programmes on the computer or ipads. Listen to a range of nursery rhymes sang in French. Can you practice the song and perform in class? Explore Ancient Greece and Ancient Greek stories. Compose music to tell the story using body sounds or everyday objects. Compose a range of songs about food using well known theme tunes.

6 performances. Compose word rhythms and sing a round. 4 Autumn Poetry Develop performances of contrasting poems. Use voices to speak expressively and rhythmically, and discover ways to create ostinato accompaniments to enhance performances. Environment - Using the seasons as a stimuli the children make descriptive accompaniments and discover how the environment has inspired composers throughout history. Sounds Explore how sounds are produced. Use voices to make beatbox sounds, sing four-part songs and perform a jazzy round. Recycling The children make their own instruments from junk then use them to improvise, compose and play junk jazz music in a variety of different musical structures. Spring Building Explore how music can be structured to provide different textures. Use layers and rondo structure to combine ostinati played on body percussion and tuned instruments. Around the world Explore pentatonic Explore the sounds within the environment. Can you replicate these sounds using body percussion and everyday objects? Could you create your own composition using the range of sounds created? Listen to a range of music from around the world. Which styles of music do you like/dislike and why? Make your own musical instrument using recycled material from around the home. Can you use the instrument to make different rhythm patterns? Explore the different instruments of the orchestra. Can you name them and describe the sounds they make? What section of the orchestra do they belong to? Listen to some music performed by an orchestra. Can you identify the instruments

7 Summer melodies and syncopated rhythms, learning that the fundamental dimensions of music are the same all over the world. Ancient Worlds Celebrate the achievements of the Egyptians and explore 20 th century minimalist music inspired by the age of Akhenaten. Arrange and perform a layered pyramid structure. Singing Spanish Sights and sounds of the Spanish speaking world, including greetings, counting to twelve and playing a singing game. Explore part singing and accompaniments in four contrasting songs. Communication Create a news programme, complete with theme music and school news headlines. Use songs and raps. Time Use music featuring bells and clocks to understand rhythm and syncopation. Learn to sing and play bell patterns, listen to an orchestral clock piece, and create descriptive music. In the Past Use a variety of notations to build performances from different periods and styles. Learn a Renaissance dance. Food and drink Celebrate using singing. within the piece of music? Watch a live performance of an orchestra or band. Listen to songs and raps for tv and radio adverts. Create your own jingle. Look at a selection of pictures and create a descriptive piece of music to match the picture using body percussion. Listen to music from different periods and styles. Describe the instruments you hear. Create your own musical songs using food and drink as the stimulus.

8 5 Autumn Our Community compose and perform music inspired by their local community, both past and present. Solar System embark on a musical journey through the solar system, exploring how our universe inspired composers including Claude Debussy, Gustav Host and George Crumb. The children sing songs and compose pieces of music. Spring Life Cycles Explore the human life cycle with music by Johannes Brahms, Luciano Berio, Franz Liszt and Claudio Monteverdi. The children sing, perform and compose. Look at bands and choirs in the local community. Take your child to a performance. Explore the solar system. Use computer or ipad musical programmes to compose a piece of music to represent the planets in our solar system. Listen to music composed by Claude Debussy, Gustav Host and George Crumb Listen to music composed by Johannes Brahms, Luciano Berio, Franz Liszt and Claudio Monteverdi. Listen to a range of singing styles e.g. gospel music, opera singing etc. Keeping Healthy body popping, gospel singing and performing using new musical techniques.

9 Summer At the Movies Explore music from 1920 s animated films to present day movies. The children learn techniques for creating soundtracks and film scores, and they compose their own movie music. Celebration celebrating singing, building up towards a performance to an audience. 6 Autumn World Unite Exploring rhythm and melody in singing, movement and dance. The children learn about beat, syncopation, pitch and harmony. Journeys Sing a variety of songs for performance. Listen to music from 1920 s animated films to present day movies. Compare and contrast the music that was written. Sing a range of songs e.g. pop songs, raps etc. Compose a song about going on a journey. Use a well known music track to perform to. Could you perform your song to the rest of the class?

10 Spring Growth Explore Ravel s Bolero through rhythmical mime, learn songs with instrumental accompaniments, and create a dance to build into a thrilling street performance. Roots Create a musical performance about the effects of the slave trade on a West African village. Listen to Ravel s Bolero. What picture does in conjure up in your mind? Could you tell a story from listening to the piece of music? Look at the busy streets of Liverpool. What sounds can you hear? Could you replicate these sounds using dance and movement? Explore and research the slave trade in West Africa. Explore music that reflects the mood and emotion created at this time. Summer Class Awards Create a musical composition to match a piece of art work. Create a performance using fanfare, rap and songs. Moving On Songs looking forward and back in their year. Performance for end of year celebration. Create own piece of artwork or choose a piece of artwork by a well known artist, compose a piece of music to reflect the mood and emotions within the piece of music. Explore songs that could be performed in our end of year celebration.

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