Music

Music Development Plan 2024-2025

Music Development Plan 24-25.pdf

Music

Subject Leader: Mrs Taylor

At CMFS we make music an enjoyable learning experience. We encourage children to participate in a variety of musical experiences through which we aim to build up the confidence of all children. Our Music curriculum is based on CUSP. We appreciate early Music foundations are born in Early Years. We cherish time singing, listening to and using rhymes and understanding rhythms. We also appreciate the value in Music to help children to recognise, respond to and regulate emotions.

We believe all children should perform, listen to, review and evaluate music. Our intention is that all children develop an understanding of what music is through listening, singing, playing, evaluating, analysing, and composing across a wide variety of historical periods, styles, traditions and musical genres. Our curriculum emphasizes the language necessary for exploring musicality, with structured routines that focus cognitive attention on core content.

CUSP Music is designed around evidence-led practices to ensure high-quality musical development for children. The curriculum builds students' musical knowledge, competency, and confidence, featuring the study of significant musicians and works to inspire and connect them to the world. Core areas include singing, listening, composing, and instrumental performance, developed cumulatively to deepen engagement over time.

Through key stage 2 the children have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument through the peripatetic service, but all children explore and develop concepts of musical notation through whole class teaching of glockenspiels and other pitched instruments.

We aim to develop a curiosity and enthusiasm for music, as well as an understanding and acceptance of the validity and importance of all types of music, and an unbiased respect for the role that music may play in any person’s life. Our children leave CMFS with a love for music, grounded in skills and experiences that will inspire them to think critically and creatively, not just in the music classroom, but across all aspects of their life.

Autumn Term

Spring Term

Summer Term

Year 1

Tuned and untuned percussion

Singing

Singing focus: Being together in music
Control the voice – nursery rhymes

Untuned percussion

Untuned focus: Introducing rhythm and pulse Representing sounds pictorially

Singing

Singing focus: Introducing pitch
Identify changes in sounds (high/low)

Untuned percussion

Untuned focus: Introducing tempo and dynamic Identify changes in sounds (fast/slow, loud/soft)

Singing

Singing focus: Exploring emotions through music
Responding to music

Untuned percussion

Tuned focus: Introducing tempo and dynamic 2
Control and describe tempo and dynamic Block F

Year 2

Tuned and untuned percussion

Untuned percussion

Untuned focus: Experimenting with sounds 2
Representing sounds pictorially

Singing

Singing focus: Being together in music 2 Control the voice – sing as a choir Block B

Untuned percussion

Untuned focus: Introducing rhythm and pulse 2 Block C
Compose short patterns Block C

Singing

Singing focus: Introducing pitch 2 Block D
Control and describe pitch Block D

Untuned percussion

Tuned focus: Introducing tempo and dynamic 2
Control and describe tempo and dynamic

Singing

Singing focus: Exploring emotions through music 2
Choose sounds to create an effect

Year 3

Mastering the glockenspiel

Singing

Singing focus: Introducing texture
Sing parts in an ensemble (e.g. rounds)

Untuned percussion

Untuned focus: Mastering rhythm
Recognise beats in a bar (time signatures/metre)

Singing

Singing focus: The history of singing
Singing for togetherness e.g. folk songs, war chants, hymns

Glockenspiel

Tuned focus: Musical notation
Introduce the staff

Glockenspiel

Tuned focus: Composition
Compose in pairs

Range of instruments studied

Performance focus: Introducing timbre
Perform as an ensemble (range of instruments)

Year 4

Mastering the glockenspiel

Untuned percussion

Untuned focus:
Follow beats in a bar (time signatures/metre)

Singing

Singing focus: Introducing texture 2 Sing parts in an ensemble (harmony)
Tuned focus: Musical notation 2
Revisit the staff

Singing

Singing focus: The history of singing 2
Singing for entertainment e.g. opera, theatrical, modernism

Ukulele

Performance focus: Composition 2 Block E
Perform including an element of composition Block E

Range of instruments studied

Tuned focus: Introducing timbre 2 Block F
Identify and describe how sounds are combined Block F

Interactive Bar

Music Development Plan 2024-2025