Music Teaching Sequence

Oakdene Primary Academy Teaching Sequence R-Y2 Music 2022-23 Autumn Term Celebration Music

Spring Term Exploring Sound

Summer Term Musical Stories

Learning about the music from a range of cultural Exploring how we can use our voice and bodies to Moving to music with instruction, changing movemake sounds, experimenting with tempo and and religious celebrations, including Diwali, ments to match the tempo, pitch or dynamics dynamics when playing instruments and identiHanukkah, Kwanzaa and Christmas. and learning that music and instruments can fying sounds in the environment. convey moods or represent characters.

Music and Movement

Reception

Big Band

Creating simple actions to well-known songs, learnLearning about what makes a musical instruing how to move to a beat and expressing feelment, the four different groups of musical ings and emotions through movement to music. instruments, following a beat using an untuned instrument and performing a practised song.

Teaching Sequence - Year 1 Autumn Term Pulse and Rhythm (Theme: All About Me)

Year 1

Spring Term Musical Vocabulary (Theme: Under the Sea)

Exploring key musical vocabulary.

Identifying the difference between the pulse and rhythm of a song and consolidating understanding of these concepts through listening and performing activities.

Timbre and Rhythmic Patterns (Theme: Fairy Tales) Classical Music, Dynamics and Tempo (Theme: Introducing the concept of timbre; learning that Animals) different sounds can represent characters and Using our bodies and instruments to listen and respond to pieces of classical music that represent animals. Learning and performing a song and composing a short section of music, with a focus on dynamics and tempo.

Summer Term Pitch and Tempo (Theme: Superheroes) Learning how to identify high and low notes and to compose a simple tune, exploring some different instruments and investigating how tempo changes help tell a story and make music more exciting.

Vocal and Body Sounds (Theme: By the Sea)

key events in a story. Clapping to the syllables Children are encouraged to feel pieces of music, of words and phrases before creating rhythmic conveying mood through movement and makpatterns. ing links between music, sounds and environments

Teaching Sequence - Year 2 Autumn Term

Spring Term

West African call and Response Song (Theme: Ani- Musical Me mals) Learning to sing the song ‘Once a Man Fell in a Using instruments to represent animals, copying rhythms, learning a traditional African call and response song and recognising simple notation, progressing to creating animal-based call and response rhythms.

On this Island: British Songs and Sounds

Taking inspiration from the British Isles, exploring Well’ and to play it using tuned percussion, how to create sounds to represent three conadding sound effects, experimenting with timbre trasting landscapes: seaside, countryside and and dynamics and using letter notation to city, creating their own soundscapes. write a melody.

Dynamics, Timbre, Tempo, Motifs (Theme: Space)

Year 2

Summer Term

Orchestral Instruments (Theme: Traditional West- Identifying dynamics, timbre, tempo and instruern Stories). ments in music heard and comparing pieces by the same composer. Visually representing music Introducing the instruments of the orchestra. in creative and more formal ways and learning Learning how different characters can be repto play and compose motifs. resented by timbre, how emotions can be represented by pitch and how changes in tempo can convey action.

Myths and Legends Developing understanding of musical language and how timbre, dynamics and tempo affect the mood of a song.

Oakdene Primary Academy - Music Teaching Sequence Autumn Term Glockenspiel

Spring Term Making Music

Pupils builds upon previous learning on the glockenspiel and Through songs, chants and musical games, children will continue to develop their musicianship skills. It reinthe pupils knowledge of pitch, pulse and rhythm. forces the difference between pulse and rhythm, After reinforcing pitches and rhythms through developing the inner hearing and holding a part in a songs and games, children will learn to apply these group. Children will hold an ostinato rhythm, focus skills to playing the glockenspiel. on the new pitch—’fa’, and continue to develop their rhythm-reading and writing skills using their voices and untuned percussion.

Year 3

Summer Term Playing Together Children will bring together the musicianship skills learnt over the year to create class ensemble pieces using the glockenspiel, un-tuned percussion instruments and the singing voice. Through songs and games, pulse and rhythm are reinforced and children will use basic rhythmic notation learnt earlier in the year.

Music Around the World Pupils explore the music of different countries every two Music and Movement Exploring Musical Theatre weeks, learning about the culture and music of that Children will explore music through active listening. Chilcountry, learning a traditional song and in some cases Children will learn about the different elements of dren will be encouraged to move to, react to and using the native language. Through singing games musical theatre using core songs, drama and movedescribe live and recorded music and sounds. It will and singing folk songs, children build upon what they ment activities and repertoire from musical theacontinue to build on their understanding of pitch and have learnt on the glockenspiel and continue to develtre. Children will use core songs and prior musical rhythm. Using scarves, actions, their signing voices op the key elements of music, Children explore music knowledge to extract different musical elements and assorted percussion, children will explore musical from the Caribbean, \Ireland and the USA. from musical theatre pieces and learn to sing more phrases and improvisation., complex material confidently as an ensemble, and as individuals.

Autumn Term World Music

Year 4

Spring Term Reading Music

Summer Term Painting with Sound

Children explore music of different styles from around Children will build upon previous learning on the glocken- Through listening, discussion and improvisation, chilspiel, allowing children to deepen their knowledge of the world. Through singing, games and playing undren will explore the concept of using music to standard musical notation. Through singing games tuned percussion and the glockenspiel, pupils will gain describe and atmosphere , place or emotion. and playing tuned and untuned percussion, children an understanding of traditional music from a range Children will build on their prior knowledge of will explore pulse, rhythm and pitch in relation to the of countries and experience the rhythmical and merhythmic notation in an ensemble activity and stave.

Children will develop a good understanding of lodic characteristic of the styles. Children will study some children will have an opportunity to lead reading and writing basic rhythms and will play and and sing music from Africa, the Caribbean and their class in a layered piece using vocal and sing as part of group ensembles. Children will explore Japan. Through these songs and games, children will body percussion. Children will discover a selection musical notation through playing the glockenspiel and continue to develop their understanding of musical of classical and popular music pieces which will a variety of untuned percussion instruments, along notation, pitch, rhythm and pulse. lead to them creating their own compositions. with props, flashcards and the whiteboard.

Glockenspiel

Making Music

Elements of Music

Children will build upon previous learning on the glockenChildren will continue to work out and write rhythChildren will deepen their understanding of pitch through spiel and the pupils’ knowledge of pitch and pulse and mic patterns and will develop their rhythmicusing hand signs, the whiteboard, props and instrurhythm. After reinforcing pitches and rhythms reading and playing skills using rhythm flashments. The unit helps children to develop their ability through songs ands games, children will learn to cards and a rhythm clock. Children will use to hold a part in a musical ensemble and aims to apply these skills to playing the glockenspiel. signing games, rhymes, tongue twisters and encourage coordination, along with developing time, listening activities to teach and reinforce the space and energy skills for applying to musical inkeywords: pulse, rhythm, pitch, metre, dynamstruments. Children will be encouraged to recognise ics and tempo. Children will play a variety of rhythmical patterns through listening, reading and percussion instruments and sing songs from the writing, Children will also have the opportunity to USA, Africa and the UK. create their own rhythmical patterns to compose a rhythm sequence.

Autumn Term Glockenspiel

Spring Term Exploring Classical Music

Summer Term Exploring Pop Music

This unit builds upon previous learning Children will discover the use of rhythmic and melodic patterns, This unit builds upon the musicianship skills developed structure, instrumentation and dynamics in a variety of exciting and develops the pupils’ knowledge so far, to create class ensemble performances of two orchestral pieces: Radetzky March (Strauss), The Good, the Bad of pitch, pulse and rhythm. After pieces of popular music, using the glockenspiel, unand the Ugly (Morricone) and Hoedown (Copland). Children will reinforcing pitches and rhythms tuned percussion and the singing voice. Children use their understanding of rhythmic notation to recognise rhyththrough songs, chants and games, will discover two pieces of popular music from conmic patterns in pieces and will apply this knowledge in ensemble children will learn to apply these trasting eras: one by S Club 7 and one by The activities. Through songs and games, children will focus on semiskills to playing the glockenspiel.

Beatles. Through songs and musical games, chilquaver rhythms, dotted rhythms, the structure of a piece and Throughout the unit, children will dren will discover some of the elements used in the changing metre. This unit also encourages children to describe have the opportunity to play and songs and will apply this to their group ensemble music and to express themselves through creative activities. sing solo, and as part of a group activities. ensemble. Musical ideas will be reinforced through use of props, Year 5 Exploring Musical Notation Music Around the World flashcards, the whiteboard and This unit builds on the skills learnt so far, allowing children to deepen untuned percussion.

In this unit, pupils explore the music of different countheir knowledge of standard musical notation and apply this tries (USA, Israel, Ghana, Kenya, Polynesia – Hathrough improvisation and performance. Through singing games waii, New Zealand), learning about actions and Percussion and Rhythm and playing tuned and untuned percussion, children will explore instruments used, learning traditional songs and in pulse, rhythm and pitch in relation to the stave. This unit reinThrough rhythm games, songs and some cases using the native language. Through forces their understanding of reading and writing basic rhythms percussion activities, children will singing games and singing folk songs, children build and children will begin to recognise musical structure by listening reinforce their knowledge of pulse upon what they have learnt on the glockenspiel and and looking for patterns. Through singing games, using actions, and rhythm. Children will read continue to develop the key elements of music. Chilinstruments and props, children will develop time, space and enerand write basic rhythmic notation, dren will take part in more complex class ensembles gy skills and develop their coordination. Pupils will apply their develop their skills on the glockenusing the glockenspiel, voice and untuned percussion skills by practising holding their part in an ensemble, along with spiel and begin to develop an unand hand signs and will develop their rhythm and using props, flashcards and the whiteboard. Children will also derstanding of bar lines and time pitch-reading skills. have opportunity to create their own rhythmical patterns to comsignatures. pose a rhythm sequence.

Autumn Term Glockenspiel

Year 6

Spring Term Exploring Classical Music

Summer Term Exploring Pop Music

This unit builds upon previous learning and develops the In this unit, children will discover the use of rhythmic Children will listen, move and play to recorded and melodic patterns, structure, instrumentation pupils’ knowledge of pitch, pulse and rhythm, while music and will be part of class ensemble and dynamics in a variety of exciting orchestral exploring music from around the world. After reinperformances of two pieces of popular mupieces: Radetzky March (Strauss), The Good, the forcing pitches and rhythms through songs, chants sic, using the glockenspiel, un-tuned percusBad and the Ugly (Morricone) and Hoedown and games from Africa, the Caribbean and Japan, sion and the singing voice. Through songs (Copland). Children will use their understanding children will apply their knowledge through playing and musical games, children will discover of rhythmic notation to recognise rhythmic patthe glockenspiel. Throughout the unit, children will some of the elements used in a variety of terns in pieces and will apply this knowledge in have the opportunity to play and sing solo and as pop songs and will apply this to their group ensemble activities.

Through songs and games, part of a group ensemble. Children will develop their ensemble activities. Children will study in children will focus on semi-quaver rhythms, dotunderstanding of rhythm through call and response more detail two pieces of popular music ted rhythms, the structure of a piece and changand reading and writing standard rhythmic notation. from contrasting eras. ing metre. This unit also encourages children to describe music and to express themselves through creative activities.

Percussion and Rhythm Music for Film and TV Children will build upon prior knowledge of pulse, rhythm This unit uses the musical skills children have and rhythmic notation, through learning to play as Composition developed this year and in previous years in part of a group. Children will use their bodies, unlistening activities, small group composition Children will learn about the composition process and tuned percussion, flashcards and the whiteboard to and improvisations. Children will learn to will gain more experience of describing music and deepen their understanding of reading and writing describe music, to recognise sounds and to sounds. Children will study Rhapsody in Blue musical notation. Children will sight-read, improvise create foley, background music and adver(Gershwin) and will use ideas from the piece to and memorise rhythms through musical games and tising jingles. Children will learn about how create their own piece of music based on a London develop an understanding of the difference between music can create an atmosphere or conjure skyline, using the glockenspiel, a range of untuned simple and compound time signatures. up a certain emotion or experience from a percussion, body percussion and their voices . viewer when used for film and television.