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Classroom Music lessons at King’s

 

During the children’s classroom music lessons we aim to expose them to a wide variety of music and allow them to experience it through listening, appraising, performing and composing.  The following table is a list of the topics studied in each year group:

 

Reception (1 lesson a week)                                                                                     (2 lessons a week)

 

 

Autumn

 

 

Exploring classroom instruments

 

 

Accompanying a story: Peace At Last and Fireworks

 

 

 

 

Spring

 

 

Exploring Duration: The Long And Short Of It

 

 

 The Hare and The Tortoise: sound story with focus on long and short sounds

 

 

Summer

 

 

The Three little Pigs: sound story

 

 

Class composition with an ostinato: Night Time

 

 

Reception production

 

 

Pre Prep Music Morning

 

 

Year 1 (2 lessons a week)

 

 

Autumn

 

 

Winter: Class Composition and listening(Vivaldi)

 

 

Christmas production

 

 

 

 

Spring

 

 

Exploring Pitch

 

 

 Jack and The Beanstalk: sound story with focus on pitch using tuned percussion

 

 

Summer

 

 

Cinderella: listening( Prokofiev) and creating own musical version

 

 

Pre Prep Music Morning

 

 

Year 2 (2 lessons a week and a choir session)

 

 

Autumn

 

 

Introducing the orchestra: Peter And The Wolf

 

 

Christmas Production

 

 

Recorder Tuition

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spring

 

 

Timbre, Tempo and Dynamics: Noah’s Ark

 

 

Recorder Tuition

 

 

 

 

Summer

 

 

The Planets – Holst

 

 

Listening and class composition based on Mars and Venus

 

 

Pre Prep Music Morning

 

 

Recorder Tuition

 

 

 

 

Year  3 (2 lessons a week and a choir session)

 

 

Autumn

 

 

Classroom percussion

 

 

Instruments of the Orchestra

 

 

Carols around the Christmas Tree

 

 

Spring

 

 

Voices

 

 

Elements of Music

 

 

 

 

 

 

Summer

 

 

World Music

 

 

Year 3 Production

 

 

Year 4 (2 lessons a week and a choir session)

 

 

Autumn

 

 

Modes

 

 

Carnival of the Animals

 

 

Carols around the Christmas Tree

 

 

Spring

 

 

Music History

 

 

 

 

Summer

 

 

Texture project (Webern)

 

 

Year 4 Production

 

 

Year 5 (1 lesson a week)

 

 

Autumn

 

 

Baroque Concerto

 

 

Year 5 Production

 

 

Spring

 

 

Japanese Music

 

 

Summer

 

 

Programme Music

 

 

Year 6 (1 lesson a week)

 

 

Autumn

 

 

Theme and variations

 

 

Spring

 

 

Henry Purcell

 

 

Summer

 

 

Indian Music

 

 

Year 7 (1 lesson a week for either half of each term, with a combined Music and Drama lesson in the summer)

 

 

Autumn

 

 

Polyrhythms and Minimalism

 

 

Spring

 

 

Music for a special occasion

 

 

Summer

 

 

Dance

 

 

Year 8 (I lesson a week for a term)

 

 

Chords into Jazz OR

 

 

Composing a song for pre-prep