Aims and Outcomes

Key Stage 1

Use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes.

Play tunes and untuned instruments musically.

Listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music.

Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music.

Key Stage 2

Play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments, with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression.

improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using inter-related dimensions of music.

Listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory.

Use and understand staff and other notations.

Appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians.

Develop an understanding of the history of music.

Delivering the National Curriculum

• Learn to sing and use their voices, to create and compose music of their own and with others
• Have the opportunity to learn an instrument and 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 music notations
• Perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of genres, styles and traditions