Curriculum Overview
Reception
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6
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Curriculum Overview

Reception

Autumn
Communication and iteraction
Spring
Physical development
Summer
Expressive Arts and Design; Being Imaginative and Expressive

All Reception subjects Next Reception Subject - Art

Year 1

Autumn

Hey – You Old School Hip-Hop
Play tuned and untuned instruments musically

Christmas Concert
Use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes
Spring
In the groove Blues
Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music

Artist study Baroque Vivaldi
Use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes play tuned and untuned instruments musically.
Summer
Your imagination Composition
Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music.

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

All Year 1 subjects Next Year 1 Subject - Art

Year 2

Autumn

Hands, Feet, Heart South African Styles
Play tuned and untuned instruments musically

Christmas Concert
Use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes
Spring

I want to play in a band Rock Composition 
Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the interrelated dimensions of music.

Artist study 20th century Holst
Use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes play tuned and untuned instruments musically.
Summer

Friendship song Composition
Play tuned and untuned instruments musically.

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

All Year 2 subjects Next Year 2 Subject - Art

Year 3

Autumn

Let your spirit fly. R&B and Western.

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

Instrumental
Use and understand staff and other musical notations Improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music

Artist study renaissance Monteverdi
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
Summer

Instrumental
Use and understand staff and other musical notations Improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music

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

All Year 3 subjects Next Year 3 Subject - Art

Year 4

Autumn

Mamma - Mia Abba
Improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music.

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

Instrumental
Use and understand staff and other musical notations Listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory

Artist study classical Beethoven
Develop an understanding of the history of music
Summer

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

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

All Year 4 subjects Next Year 4 Subject - Art

Year 5

Autumn

Instrumental
Use and understand staff and other musical notations.

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

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

Instrumental
Use and understand staff and other musical notations
Summer

Instrumental
Use and understand staff and other musical notations

World music Opera
Develop an understanding of the history of music.

All Year 5 subjects Next Year 5 Subject - Art

Year 6

Autumn

Instrumental
Use and understand staff and other musical notations. Listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory.

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

Modern era
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

Instrumental
Improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music.
Summer

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

Production
Improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music

All Year 6 subjects Next Year 6 Subject - Art

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