Music
The intention of the Kapow Primary Music scheme is to first and foremost help children feel that they are musical, and to develop a life-long love of music. We will focus on developing skills, knowledge and understanding that children need to become confident composers, performers and listeners.
Kapow’s Primary Music scheme takes a holistic approach to music to create engaging and enriching learning experiences. The following 5 strands are woven together:
- Performing
- Listening
- Composing
- The history of music
- The inter-related dimensions of music
Over the course of the scheme, children will be taught how to sing fluently and expressively, and play tuned and untuned instruments with control. The will learn to recognise and name the interrelated dimensions of music and use them expressively in their own improvisations and compositions.
The Kapow Primary Music scheme follows a spiral curriculum where previous skills and knowledge are returned and built upon.
The impact of Kapow’s Primary Music scheme will be monitored by teachers through both formative and summative assessment. Pupils will leave St James’ Haslingden Primary School equipped with a range of skills to enable them to succeed in their secondary education and to be able to enjoy and appreciate music throughout their lives.
The expected impact of following the Kapow Primary Music scheme of work is that children will:
- Be confident performers, composers and listeners and will be able to express themselves musically at and beyond school.
- Show an appreciation and respect for a wide range of musical styles from around the world and will understand how music is influenced by the wider cultural, social and historical contexts in which it is developed.
- Understand the ways in which music can be written down to support performing and composing activities.
- Demonstrate and articulate an enthusiasm for music and be able to identify their own personal musical preferences.
Our curriculum will enable children to meet the end of key stage expectations outlined in the national curriculum for Music and develop a love for music.
Miss C Morton
Music Co-ordinator
Music Curriculum Overviews
Year 1 Music Overviews and Knowledge Organisers
Year 1 Overviews and Knowledge Organisers
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Year 1 – Pulse & Rhythm All About Me and Yr1 KO Pulse And Rhythm
Year 1 – Timbre & rhythmic pattern Fairy Tales and Yr1 KO Timbre And Rhythm Fairytales
Year 1 – Pitch & Tempo Superheroes and Yr1 KO Pitch And Tempo
Year 2 Music Overviews and Knowledge Organisers
Year 2 Overviews and Knowledge Organisers
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Year2 Orchestral instruments Theme Traditional stories and Yr2 KO Orchestral Instruments
Year2 Musical Me and Yr2 KO Musical Me
Year2 West African call and response song and Yr2 KO West African Call Response Animals
Year 3 Music Overviews and Knowledge Organisers
Year 3 Overviews and Knowledge Organisers
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Year3 Ballads and Yr3 KO Ballads
Year3 Developing singing technique The Vikings and Yr3 KO Vikings
Year 3 Traditional instruments and improvisation Theme India and Yr3 KO India
Year 4 Music Overviews and Knowledge Organisers
Year 4 Overviews and Knowledge Organisers
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Year4 Adapting and transposing motifs Theme Romans and Yr4 KO Adapting And Transposing Motifs
Year 4 – Change in pitch, dynamics, tempo Rivers and Yr4 KO Changes In Pitch Tempo And Dynamics
Year 4 Samba and carnival sounds and Yr4 KO Samba And Carnival Sounds And Instruments
Year 5 Music Overviews and Knowledge Organisers
Year 5 Overviews and Knowledge Organisers
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Year 5 South And West Africa and Yr5 KO South And West Africa
Year 5 – Composition To Represent The Festival Of Colour and Yr5 KO Composition To Represent The Festival Of Colour
Year 6 Music Overviews and Knowledge Organisers
Year 6 Overviews and Knowledge Organisers
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Year 6 Advanced Rhythms and Yr6 KO Advanced Rhythms
Year 6 Theme And Variations Theme Pop Art and Yr6 KO Theme And Variations
Year 6 – Composing And Performing A Leavers Song and Yr6 KO Leavers Song