Music
At Lime Tree Primary Academy, every child has the opportunity to develop a passion for Music
The children are taught a range of progressive musical skills whilst learning about different genres of music. Throughout their time at Lime Tree, the children are taught to play percussion, ocarina, recorder and the glockenspiel.
Intent - what do we teach?
Our curriculum intends to inspire creativity, self-expression and encourage children on their musical journey as well as connect and share opportunities with their peers. We hope to foster a life-long love of music by exposing them to diverse musical experiences and igniting a passion for music.
We are committed to developing a curiosity for the subject, and hope by them listening and responding to different musical styles, finding their voices as singers and as composers, it will enable them to become confident and reflective musicians. Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity.
Implementation - how do we teach it?
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Music: essential skills and knowledge |
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Strand |
Key Stage One |
Lower Key Stage Two |
Upper Key Stage Two |
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Appreciate and understand |
Listen with concentration to a range of live and recorded music. Describe basic elements of a piece of music e.g. pace or volume of a piece of music. Explain what they like or dislike about a piece of music and how it makes them feel. |
Listen with attention to detail to a range of live and recorded music. Describe different musical elements using correct vocabulary (tempo, rhythm, pulse and pitch) in a range of musical pieces. Compare and evaluate how different pieces of music make them feel and begin to explain why. |
Listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory. Identify how musical elements (pitch, tempo, melody, rhythm and dynamics) can be used to create different moods and effects. Discuss and offer opinions on a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music. Recognise and comment on the instruments and music drawn from different periods of history and from great composers and musicians. |
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• Amazon • Roll up, Roll up! • United • Twist and Shout |
• Musical Express • Trailblazers • Around the World |
• Amazing Islands • Mozart Mash-Up • The Globe |
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· Roll Up, Roll Up: theme overview (PDF) |
· Around the World: theme overview |
· Amazing Islands: theme overview |
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Rhythm |
Copy and create simple rhythmic patterns using clapping or a percussion instrument. Understand the difference between rhythm and pulse. |
Copy and create extended rhythmic patterns using clapping, a range of percussion instruments or vocally. |
Create more complex rhythmic patterns using a range of instruments and with an awareness of timbre (quality of sound) and duration. |
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• Amazon • Worth Repeating • Twist and Shout |
• Trailblazers • Musical Express |
• Mozart Mash-Up |
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Singing |
Use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes. Use their voice in different ways for effect when singing e.g. change the volume or pitch or through chanting or speaking. |
Perform songs confidently, both in solo and in group performances. Maintain own part in a group performance with confidence and accuracy. |
Use their voices to perform with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression. Take on a more complex role in a group performance showing an awareness of others e.g. sing in tune with other performers and introduce harmonies. |
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• Amazon • Shipwreck • Twist and Shout |
• Musical Express |
• Mozart Mash-Up |
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Improvise and compose |
Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the basic elements of music (duration, volume, pitch and tempo). |
Carefully layer and combine sounds and instruments, considering their combined effect. Improvise and shape musical compositions, considering the musical elements of duration, volume, pitch and tempo. |
Improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the different elements of music (duration, dynamics (volume), pitch, silence, tempo, texture and timbre). |
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• Amazon • Amazing Animals • Twist and Shout |
• Musical Express • Merlin • Trailblazers |
• Galaxy Quest • Mozart Mash-Up |
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Instruments |
Make sounds in different ways including shaking, banging and blowing. Play tuned and untuned instruments musically. |
Perform own part with accuracy and fluency when playing both tuned and un-tuned instruments. |
Play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression. |
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• Amazon • Twist and Shout |
• Musical Express • Merlin • Trailblazers |
• Galaxy Quest • Mozart Mash-Up |
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Notation |
Begin to represent sounds with simple drawings and symbols. |
Represent sounds with symbols / notation both standard and invented. |
Use and understand staff and other musical notations. Perform from simple musical notation. |
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• Amazon • Twist and Shout • Worth Repeating |
• Trailblazers • Musical Express |
• Mozart Mash-Up • Galaxy Quest |
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