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Autumn Spring Summer
Year 1/2 Cycle A
Singing – Topic related
Learning to play the recorder
Rhythm and notation
Music listening – Carnival of the animals
Class composition
Performance - Harvest, Nativity, Carol service, School Concerts
Junior choir opportunity

Singing – Topic related
Recorders
Rhythm and notation
Music listening
Class composition
Performance – Easter service
Junior choir

Singing – Topic related
Recorders
Rhythm and notation
Music listening – Flight of the bumble bee
Class composition
Performance – summer concert / show
Junior choir
Year 1/2 Cycle B
Singing – Topic related
Recorders
Rhythm and notation
Music listening – The Nutcracker
Class composition
Performance - Harvest, Nativity, Carol service, School Concerts
Junior choir

Singing – Topic related
Recorders
Rhythm and notation
Music listening
Class composition
Performance – Easter service
Junior choir

Singing – Topic related
Recorders
Rhythm and notation
Music listening – Waltz of the flowers by Chopin
Class composition
Performance – summer concert / show
Junior choir
Year 3/4 Cycle A
Singing – Topic related
Recorders
Rhythm and notation
Music listening – Autumn by Vivaldi
Group composition
Performance - Harvest, Nativity, Carol service, School Concerts
Junior choir

Singing – Topic related
Recorders
Rhythm and notation
Music listening
Class composition
Performance – Easter service
Junior choir

Singing – songs from the Caribbean
Music listening – Caribbean music
Group compositions using mento rhythm
Performance – summer concert / show
Junior choir
Year 3/4 Cycle B
Singing – Topic related
Recorders
Rhythm and notation
Music listening – Sleeping Beauty by Tchaikovsky
Group composition
Performance - Harvest, Nativity, Carol service, School Concerts
Junior choir

Singing – Tudor songs
Knowledge of Tudor instruments
Recorders – Tudor pieces
Music listening – Tudor lute music
Class composition
Performance – Easter service
Junior choir

Singing – songs from Africa
Music listening – African music
Class composition of African drumming rhythm using different parts
Performance – summer concert / show
Junior choir

Year 5
Notation and keyboard skills.
Different ways of using your hand and hands to make music, including Rap.

Learning songs for Christmas Service.

Composing and performing music for a specific purpose

Learning songs for Easter Service


Learning how dynamics and tempo affects the character of a piece of music.
Year 6
Notation and Keyboard skills.
Instrumental families and timbres.
Learning songs for Christmas Service.

Twentieth Century popular music and dance.
Intervals and parallel motion.

Learning songs for Easter Service.


Adapting music using various variation techniques.

Musical imagery.

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