Knowledge and skills:

During Year 1 & Year 2 the children learn to:

• use their voice to speak, sing and chant;

• use instruments to perform;

• clap short rhythmic patterns;

• make different sounds with my voice and with instruments;

• repeat short rhythmic and melodic patterns;

• make a sequence of sounds;

• respond to different moods in music;

• say whether they like or dislike a piece of music;

• choose sounds to represent different things;

• follow instructions about when to play and sing.

• sing and follow a melody;
• perform simple patterns and accompaniments keeping a steady pulse;
• play simple rhythmic patterns on an instrument;
• sing or clap increasing and decreasing tempo;
• order sounds to create a beginning, middle and an end;
• create music in response to different starting points;
• choose sounds which create an effect;
• use symbols to represent sounds;
• make connections between notations and musical sounds;
• listen out for particular things when listening to music;
• improve their own work.