Curriculum Overview
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 |
Intent
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.
Implementation
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.
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