Music

2022/2023

Year	N	R	1	2	3	4	5	6
Autumn 1	Experiencing music	Music stepping stones	Starting Out with music	Pulse and tempo	Glockenspiel 2	World music	Glockenspiel 4	Glockenspiel 5
Autumn 2	Music & Groove (pitch and pulse)	Into the woods (songs & sounds)	In the Autumn	Glockenspiel 1	Music around the world 1	Glockenspiel 3	Percussion & Rhythm 1	Percussion & Rhythm 2
Spring 1	Sounds Around 1	Sounds Around 2	Exploring pulse &rhythm	Making Music 1	Making Music 2	Reading Music	Exploring Classical Music 1	Exploring Classical Music 2
Spring 2	The world around us	Spring Time (pulse, rhythm & listening)	Exploring Pitch	Music for folk dancing (world music)	Music & Movement	Making Music 3	Exploring Musical Notation	Composition
Summer 1	Rhyme time 1	Rhyme time 2	Animals	See & hear	Playing Together 2	Playing with Sound	Exploring Pop Music 1	Exploring Pop Music 2
Summer 2	Play & sing 1	Play & sing 2	Holiday time (world music)	Playtime together 1	Exploring Musical Theatre	Elements of Music	Music Around the World 2	Music for Film & TV

2023/2024 to be confirmed

Year	N	R	1	2	3	4	5	6
Autumn 1	tbc	tbc	Exploring pulse and tempo 1	Exploring pulse and tempo 2	Reading notation 1	Reading notation 2: 2 3 & 4 time	Reading notation 3: time signature	Reading notation 4: Rhythm ensemble
Autumn 2	tbc	tbc	Exploring rhythm 1: playing and copying	Exploring rhythm 2: stick notation	Exploring notation 1: High and Low	Exploring notation 2: Follow the score	Developing sight reading skills 1	Developing sight reading skills 2
Spring 1	tbc	tbc	Exploring pitch 1 - High & Low	Exploring pitch 2 - Dot notation	Ensemble skills 1 - Call and response	Ensemble skills 2 - Melody & accompaniment	Pop music 1 - Arrangements & Improvisation	Pop music 2 - Chords and bass lines
Spring 2	tbc	tbc	Creating music 1 - sound effects & storytelling	Creating music 2 - Musical conversations	Composition Skills 1 - Pitch Rhythm & structure	Composition Skills 2 - Pentatonic phrases	Creating music for film & TV - Character, Atmosphere & environment	Composition project 1 - Improvisation, composition & notation
Summer 1	tbc	tbc	Singing and playing skills 1 - Pitch-matching	Singing and playing skills 2 - Follow the leader	Exploring musical theatre - Piano & Forte	Exploring Classical music 1 - Legato and Staccato	Exploring Classical music 2 - Ensemble performace	Composition project 2 - Notation, expression and performance
Summer 2	tbc	tbc	Understanding Rhythm & Pitch (percussion)	Playing Rhythm and pitch (Glockenspiel)	Becoming musicians 1 - Dynamics & tempo	Becoming musicians 2 - Major & minor	Becoming musicians 3 - Chords & triads	Singing with style

At The William Hogarth, we want our children to be ready to take on the world in all curriculum areas by the time they leave us. It is our intent that we aim to provide an enjoyable and challenging music curriculum, which gives pupils the opportunity to sing, play, create and perform, both individually and collaboratively. Developing musicianship skills, through active music making and exposure to a global range of music, gives pupils a wide understanding and appreciation of music and feeds into their own creativity and self-expression. All children have access to music regardless of their academic ability, race, ethnicity, background and language. SEND pupils are actively encouraged to participate fully as music is often an area of the curriculum, which allows them to excel.

As a result, our pupils become confident composers, creators and performers with an understanding of musical notation, the skills to critically evaluate their own and others’ performances and a passion to learn about and share their love of music.

The national curriculum for music aims to ensure that all pupils:

Perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions, including the works of the great composers and musicians.
Learn to sing and to use their voices, to create and compose music on their own and with others, have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument, use technology appropriately and have the opportunity to progress to the next level of musical excellence.
Understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated, including through the inter-related dimensions: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations.

Our school provides a clear and comprehensive scheme of work in line with the National Curriculum through ‘Sing Education’, and teaching and learning shows progression across both key stages within the strands of music

The elements of music are taught so that children are able to use the language of music to dissect it and understand how it is made, played, appreciated and analysed. Pupils learn how to compose focussing on different dimensions of music, which in turn feeds their understanding when listening, playing or analysing/ appraising music

Children also have access extra-curricular musical participation opportunities such as Rock Steady, piano and guitar lessons.