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 5, the expectation is that children will be able to:
- perform with accuracy and expression, showing an understanding of the context of the music
- use correct technique to play instruments with improved confidence and accuracy. create more complex tunes, thinking about their audience
- add lyrics to a composition
- explain the tempo, dynamics, metre, timbre and duration of a piece of music
- name a variety of composers and artists associated with different genres of music
- express their opinion about pieces of music using appropriate musical vocabulary
- discuss similarities and differences in pieces of music and explain how composers and performers achieve this. recognise crotchets, quavers, semibreves, crotchet and quaver rests
- recognise notes on a treble clef staff
- understand that notes are positioned differently on a bass clef
- read, and play from, music notation
- record their own compositions using music notation. name some composers and genres of music from different eras
