Ms Monica Balogh
Peripatetic Piano Teacher

Mrs Ruth Gasperini
 Peripatetic Violin Teacher

Mrs Claire Whitworth
Brass Teacher

Term 1

Term 2

Term 3

Term 4

Term 5

Term 6

The children will build a repertoire of Nursery Rhymes

We will teach the children instrument names and how to play instruments to accompany simple beats, rhymes, and songs. 

The children will continue to build their repertoire of songs and learn how to retell a story to make it interesting – changing their voices and bodies to make a character.

The children will continue to develop their story telling and singing skills. The children will also learn how to create music that is inspired by the sea.

This term our Music lessons will focus around listening and responding. To linked with topic, the children will be listening to traditional English, Irish, Welsh and Scottish pieces, making comparisons and sharing their likes and dislikes of the musical pieces they hear.

This half term we will focus on singing to take part in a performance at the end of the term.

We will be using percussion instruments to help us explore beat and rhythms and read simple musical instructions

We will be playing instruments but we will be particularly focusing on musical vocabulary, exploring its meaning and demonstrating our understanding.
 

Our learning will focus on listening and appraising Classical music, continuing to embed the foundations of the interrelated dimensions of music using voices and instruments, we will be singing, playing instruments within the song, improvising using our voices and instruments and having a go at composition.

Yr.2

In Music, we will be learning to play simple rhythms on the glockenspiel, focusing on repeated patterns and pace.

In Music, we will be continuing to play the glockenspiel, moving onto playing simple songs both individually and as a group.

In Music, we will be exploring timbre and texture as the children explore descriptive sounds. They will listen to, and perform music inspired by stories from around the world.

In Music, we will be learning to play the recorder.  We will start by learning how to play each note then progress onto simple songs.

In Music, we will be learning to play the recorder.  We will start by learning how to play each note then progress onto simple songs, we are now progressing onto more complex songs.

In Music, we will be learning to play the recorder.  We will be learning how to play each note better, playing Au Claire De La Lune and How I love my Horsey with greater fluency, then progressing onto more complex songs. 

- Show an understanding of the correct posture and how to hold the instrument

- Sing back simple rhythms and pitches of pieces to consolidate learning

- Playback simple rhythms

- Has basic wind control and can produce a sound effectively.

- Perform simple melodies on a single pitch.

- Play C, B, D and recognise them on the music stave

- Recognise 1 beat, 2 beat and 4 beat notes and rests

- Follow and perform simple scores to a steady beat

- Compose/improvise simple pieces using familiar backing tracks, open strings and known rhythms

Key Vocabulary: posture, vibration, Trumpet, Trombone, Baritone, Euphonium, rhythm, beat, pitch, pulse, notes, rests, breathe, blow, Dynamics, forte and piano, pulse, Music stave,

Crotchet, Minim, semibreve, Crotchet Rest, Minim Rest, semibreve rest, improvise, compose

- count accurately and interpret rests and pauses.

- show good breath control to produce a phrase of music.

- play the correct pitch of note and adjust accordingly.

- play C, B, D, E, F and recognise them on the music stave

- sing the phrases they are playing and sing in two parts.

- maintain their individual part accurately.

- play in two or more parts (e.g melody and accompaniment or a duet) from simple notation

- improvise and make decisions about the structure of the improvisation/ composition

- combine known rhythmic notation with letter names to create short phrases.

Key Vocabulary: Embouchure, diaphragm, bar line, fine, repeat, legato, staccato, pitch, rests, note names, accompaniment, duet, introduction, improvise, compose

- Control over dynamics (loud & soft), and can stick to a tempo or pulse.

- play A,B, C, D, E, F, G, A and recognise them on the music stave

- Recognise and interpret basic features of staff notation

- Suggest how performances can be improved, and act on suggestions

- Recognise pitch and play/sing different melodies and rhythms, pitching accurately

- Be aware of and play different time signatures.

- Achieve and be aware of a sense of ensemble.

- Be involved in performances on their instrument.

- Be able to compose music to create a specific mood.

Key Vocabulary: Pulse, notes, rests, semibreve, minim, crotchet, quaver, repeat, fine, bar-lines, time signatures, forte (loud), piano (soft), allegro, vivo, presto, moderato, andante, lento, treble clef, stave, ledger lines, crescendo and diminuendo, 4/4, 3/4, 2/4, Ensemble, texture, balance

Children will be completing their brass topic this term culminating in a brass concert at the end of the term to perform all they have learnt this year. Date to be confirmed and more information will follow soon.

Year 4 are also completing singing practice this term to take part in a Music concert at the end of June. The songs they are singing allow them to be exposed to and follow written music as well as practice harmonies.