Music Overview
Key Stage One
• use their voices expressively and creatively 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
• experiment with, create, select and combine sounds
using the inter-related dimensions of music.
Key Stage Two
• play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing
musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression
• improvise and compose music for a range of purposes
using the inter-related dimensions of music
• listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory
• use and understand staff and other musical notations
• appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music
drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians
• develop an understanding of the history of music.