St Peter's Catholic
Primary School
"Loved by Jesus, we love, we learn, we live and grow together for Him"
Music
Music Intent
At St Peter’s children receive a high-quality music education which engages and inspires them to develop a love of music, a talent as a musician, an increased creativity and self-confidence and a satisfying sense of achievement.
From an early age, pupils are exposed to great composers such as Rogers and Hammerstein, Victor Hubert, Edvard Grieg and Mozart. They identify the families of instruments that make up an orchestra whilst listening to great orchestral pieces like of Peter and the Wolf, The marriage of Figaro and the Sorcerers Apprentice. They participate in music appreciation sessions and are given the appropriate vocabulary to express their ideas using the language of the musical elements they have studied. By the end of Y2 all children are encouraged to play a tuned instrument and develop their skill of notation.
During their time in KS2, children continue to study great pieces from classical composers but are exposed to an even wider, eclectic mix of musical genre. Children build on their early notation from KS1 and all children are taught to play an instrument by consultants from the Birmingham Music Service.
By the end of KS2, children at St Peter’s have developed a critical engagement with music as listeners, composers and musicians. They have gain the necessary musical cultural capital, which will set them up to be lifelong successful learners.
| Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | Year 4 | Year 5 | Year 6 |
Autumn 1 | Listening and responding to music | Instruments and their families | Many kinds of music: Patriotic music Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves Folk Music | Let’s join the orchestra The brass family The woodwind family | A Magical Music Tour Singing: Voices high and low | Rimsky- Korsakov |
Autumn 2 | Beat it! | Great composers: Mozart the wonder boy | Vivaldi – Autumn and Winter from ‘The Four Seasons’. | Edward Elgar The story of Swan Lake | Music of the Middle Ages | Reggae |
Spring 1 | Dynamics | Music can tell a story. Dramas with music: Opera | Families of instruments: The string family The percussion family Keyboard instruments | Gustave Holst The Planets made him a star. | Elements of music: Make a note of it Shorter and Longer notes. | Doctor Who Theme by Delia Derbyshire |
Spring 2 | Tempo | Music can make you move - Jazz | Writing music down Follow the notes. Pitch: High and Low
| Elements of music: Reading and writing musical notes Reading and writing rhythm. | Bars and Time Signatures The treble clef The composers language Play it again! Shorts and Flats | Florence Price – Symphony No.1 in E minor
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Summer 1 | Pitch | I’ve got rhythm | A musical scale | Keeping time Rests Loud and soft | Singing through the musicals | Hans Zimmer – Earth |
Summer 2 | Rimsky-Korsakov’s musical connections. Tchaikovsky – Music that brings strong feeling | Ocarina | Vivaldi – Spring and Summer from ‘The Four Seasons’ Beethoven | Country Music | Singing through the musicals. | End of year performance |