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 4, the expectation is that children will be able to:
sing with good diction;
- sing in tune songs with a limited range
- sing a song with two or more parts
- perform with expression
- use correct technique to play instruments
- sing with good diction
- sing in tune songs with a limited range
- sing a song with two or more parts
- perform with expression
- use correct technique to play instruments
- begin to recognise some orchestral instruments in a piece of music
- recognise crotchets, quavers, semibreves and crotchet rests
- begin to be able to recognise some notes on a treble clef staff
- name some composers and genres of music from different eras
