Music Monthly Update #2

In Year 1, the children will be:

• Understanding the concept of beat or pulse in music and songs.
• Learning short action songs and adding percussion instruments.
• Exploring the variety of sounds that we can produce on non-pitched percussion instruments in the classroom and learning how to control them.

In Year 2 the children will be:

• Understanding the difference between beat and rhythm.
• Learning that some music has a strong beat and some may have almost no pulse.
• Using instruments to create classroom arrangements of songs such as “A Sailor went to Sea”.
• Learning some action songs.

In Year 3 the children will:

• Continue with listening to excerpts of Carnival of the Animals by Saint Saens
• Explore how composers use qualities of sound and movement to convey ideas.

In Year 4 the children will be:

• Continuing to look at patterns in music.
• Looking at the way in which composers use different types of structures to compose music.
• Playing pieces of music that incorporate ostinato patterns such as “Tubular Bells” by Mike Oldfield and Pachelbel’s “Canon”, as well as other examples.

In Year 5 the children will be:

•  Looking at how composers create variations of well known tunes.
• Composing their own variations of “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” exploring rhythmic, melodic and harmonic changes.

In Year 6 the children will be:

• Linking with their current UOI, “Leadership” by exploring the role of an orchestral Conductor and Concertmaster.
• Looking at structure in music and performing group arrangements of rounds with instrumental accompaniment.