1. Primary Curriculum
  2. Music
  3. Opportunities

Opportunities

Key Stage 1 Key Stage 2

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

• Play tuned and untuned instruments musically.

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

• Make and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music.

• Play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using voice and playing instruments with increasing accuracy, control and expression.

• Improvise and compose music using the inter-related dimensions of music separately and in combination.

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

• Use and understand the basics of the stave and other musical notations.

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

• Develop an understanding of the history of music.