National Curriculum Expectations for the end of Key Stage 2:
Children should be able to:
- 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
At Gayton, by the end of Year 3, the expectation is that children will be able to:
recognise a range of music genres
- recognise instruments being played in a piece of music
- express their opinion about pieces of music using appropriate musical vocabulary
- discuss similarities and differences in pieces of music
- find the beat in a piece of music
- explain the tempo, dynamics and duration of a piece of music
