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John Emmerson Batty Primary School
Skills and
Processes
Long Term Plan/Scheme of Work
Music
Year
Nursery
UFS
Term 1
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Creating and Exploring; Improvising with voices and instruments, composing, notating, writing down, graphic
scoring.
Performing; Solo, ensemble
Skills & Processes involved – Indicated by term or C for continuous
Term 3
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Term 2
join in with group singing and enjoy it.
be able to sing a range of simple songs and rhymes from memory and build up a repertoire.
be able to sing with control.
tap out simple repeated rhythms.
explore and learn that how sounds can be changed.
explore the different sounds of instruments.
Pulse, Rhythm, Pitch
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Singing songs with actions on the beat
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Singing songs and clapping the beat and rhythm
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Moving and responding to changing speeds in music
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Use high, medium and low voices in singing games
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Respond to pitch changes in music with movement
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Perform a story adding sounds and movement
Instruments & Symbols, Timbre, Tempo & Dynamics
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Practise playing instruments to popular songs
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Use a score to match notation and sound
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Create sounds and notation for an island scene
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Add instrumental accompaniments to rain songs
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Draw the sounds onto a score
Perform a rain song using the score
Sounds and Duration
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Listen and identify sounds in the environment
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Tap rhythms using body percussion and instruments
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Create accompaniments for songs
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Recognise long and short vocal sounds
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Identify sequences of long and short sounds
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Learn word rhythms
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Learn simple instrumental accompaniments
Pulse, Rhythm, Pitch
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Identify the beat in different pieces of music
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Identify different rhythms
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Create rhythmic patterns
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Follow pitch movement with hands
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Use high, medium and low voices
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Sing a melody at accurate pitch
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Sing phrases from notation
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Create and choose sounds in response to a given
stimulus
Instruments & Symbols, Timbre, Tempo & Dynamics
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Identify different groups of instruments and how
sounds can be changed
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Understand how symbols are used to represent
sounds
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Create a class composition using symbols for a class
score
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Performing chants in order to describe different
feelings
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Perform with instruments controlling volume
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Select combinations of appropriate sounds and
words to reflect different stimuli
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Control and combine sounds in a class composition
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Musical Activities; Singing, games, playing by ear, introducing and playing from notation
Sounds and Duration
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Create a piece of hand music
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Use vocal sounds and body percussion
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Find different ways of playing instruments
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Add instrumental sounds to a story
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Create firework sound effects
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Learn the song Fade or Float
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Identify long and short sounds in different rhythms
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Perform Winter sounds song
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Listening and Appraising; Appreciation, evaluation, opinion and discussion, style indicators, musical history
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Learning how sounds are produced and how
instruments are classified
Learning about aerophones, idiophones and
chordophones
Understanding pitch through melody
Recognising pitch shapes
Reading notations to play a melody
(Taught and covered by music tutor from Tees Valley
Music Service – Ukuleles)
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Singing a song and accompanying it with tuned
percussion ostinato
Exploring musical phrases
Performing a round in 3 parts
Identifying the metre in a piece of music
Identifying, improvising and performing an ostinato
Layering rhythms
(Taught and covered by music tutor from Tees Valley
Music Service – Ukuleles)
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Representing sounds with symbols
Using voices creatively and expressively
Creating and performing from a symbol score
Understanding how music can be organised in
sequences and layers
Creating music using children’s own ideas
(Taught and covered by music tutor from Tees Valley
Music Service – Ukuleles)
T1
C
T2/3
C
T1
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T3
C
T1
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T3
C
C
C
C
C
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Singing in 2 and 3 parts
Composing and performing
Combining vocal sounds in performance
Learning about Early Opera
Understanding metre
Conducting
Writing lyrics
Learning song from musical heritage
Developing performance with other media
Improvising rhythmic and melodic ostinato
Singing in harmony
Learning about chords
Performing music and dance
Devising rhythmical actions to music
Improvising descriptive music
Playing rhythm cycles
Singing call and response songs
Combining songs and rhythm cycles
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Exploring beat at different tempi
Using steady beat and syncopated rhythms
Learning and creating accompaniments for songs
Performing songs with syncopated rhythms
Relating sound sequences to images
Listening to music with focus on dynamics and
texture
Learning song with complex texture
Creating musical background for a poem
Exploring expressive singing in a part-song
Learning about song structure
Learning to sing major and minor note patterns
Developing a song cycle performance incorporating
mixed media
Developing rhythm skills.
Creating rhythm patterns.
Exploring rhythm through dance.
Combining and structuring rhythms through dance.
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Using a story board to structure sounds
Composing sound effects for a movie
Creating and performing melodic phrases with a
movie
Techniques used in soundtracks
Learning melody and harmony parts on instruments
Exploring song arrangement and structure
Applying singing techniques
Controlling sounds on instruments
Singing with expression and sustained notes
Performing complex song rhythms
Learning to play a melody with chord accompaniment
Playing instrumental parts to accompany a song
Composing programme music
Writing verses for a rap
Developing a song performance
Developing a song arrangement
C
C
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C
T2
C
T1/3
C