Music curriculum coverage

Year		Autumn 1	Autumn 2	Spring 1	Spring 2	Summer 1	Summer 2
R	Singing	Sing nursery rhymes, finger rhymes and simple action rhymes
R	Exploring pitch, rhythm, tempo and volume.	Listening and playing: Pitch Exploring how high or low a sound is. Tuned percussion instruments in continuous provision.	Listening and playing: Rhythm Exploring the sound pattern in music. Play clapping games and clap out the syllable pattern in their name.	Listening and playing:Tempo Exploring how fast or slow music is. Explore singing games or rhymes that will lend themselves to ‘speeding’ up or slowing down. Play games where children run fast when the pace of music quickens or walk slowly as it reduces.		Listening and playing:Tempo: Volume Exploring how loud or quiet music is. Play games where children make themselves smaller when you turn the volume down and bigger as the volume is increased.
1	Singing	Hum and Drum singing games focusing on pulse using percussion Kapow - Vocal and body sounds (by the sea) *Singup:* Menu Song Unit and The King is in the Castle Compose 1		Singup: Down there under the Sea	Singup: Who Stole my Chickens and my Hens Kapow - Classical music dynamics and tempo (animals)	Singup: Minibeasts	Singup: As I was walking down the Street
1	Exploring pitched and unpitched percussion			Listening, playing and composing: Kapow – under the sea	Singup: Compose 2	Listen, play and compose: Flight of the Bumblebee
2	Singing	London’s Burning	Singup: Tony Chestnut	Sing-a-song-a saurus Dinosaur Stomp	*Singup:* Grandma Rap	Singup: Rockpool Rock	Singup: Tanczymy Labada
2	Focus Instruments: Boomwhakers	Listen, play and compose: percussion: Boomwhackers Kapow – On this island – British songs and sounds	Boomwhackers: Christmas music using Boomwhackers (Away in a Manger?) Kapow - Dynamics, timbre,tempo and motifs (space)		Listen, play and compose: Kapow – Myths and legends	Singup: Compose 3 Listen, play and compose: Introduction to recorders	Listen, play and compose: Aquarium from Carnival of the Animals
3	Singing	Disney’s Lava	Singup: Chilled Out Clap Wrap	Out of the Ark: Stone age to Iron age play		Singup: I’ve been to Harlem
3	Recorders	Listen and explore: Revisit Boomwhackers: Kapow – creating compositions in response to an animation	Recorders Charanga Unit 1 Christmas Song	Listen, play and compose: The Delia Derbyshire Doctor Who Theme (original by Ron grainer) Kapow – developing singing techniques - Vikings	Recorders Easter Song	Singup: Compose Just 3 notes Listening: Pink Panther theme Revisit percussion: Glockenspiels	Revisit percussion: Glockenspiels Kapow - Jazz
4	Singing	Harvest Samba	Singup: This Little Light of Mine		Singup: My Fantasy Football Team	I Feel Good
4	Samba Violins	Samba music: Carnival Revisit percussion: Drumming Listening and composing: Sing-up Samba units Kapow – samba and carnival sounds and instruments		Violins Listen: compose and play with the Nutcracker Kapow -Adapting and transposing motifs - Romans		Violins Listen: compose and sing with music from James Brown (use building a grove sing-up composition unit)
5	Singing	Sing up: ‘Keep the Home fires burning’		Singup: Kis Nay Baanyaa	Tudor songs and Dance
5	Violin	Violins Listen: Play and Compose with The Lark ascending Kapow – Musical theatre		Listening: Playing and Composing with BBC Ten Pieces ‘Earth’ Hans Zimmer ‘Mars’ Gustuv Holst Revisit percussion: Body percussion Kapow – Looping and remixing	Listen: Why we sing Singup: compose 1 songwriting	Listen, play and compose: Revisit percussion: Glockenspiels Listening: playing and composing river music using Smetana’s The Moldau Kapow – composition notation (ancient Egypt)
6	Singing	Sing: Touch the Sky		Viking saga songs		Singup: Ain’t Gonna Let No body
6		Composing and playing Revisit percussion:: Bucket drums Christmas pieces for Concert Kapow – themes and variations (pop art)		Listening, playing and composing: Stravinsky’s Fire bird		Singup: compose 3 Ternary Form Listen: to You Are to Me Everything Leavers’ performance Kapow - Composing and performing a leavers’ song