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 6, the expectation is that children will be able to:
- name different musical periods
- sing with good diction
- sing in tune
- sing a song with two or more parts, showing confidence at being able to maintain tempo and pitch
- compose music that has a recognisable structure (beginning, middle and end) that shows variation in timbre and dynamics. find the beat in a piece of music
- recognise orchestral instruments and describe their effect in a piece of music. recognise a range of music genres (including from around the world) and describe their characteristics
- recognise instruments being played in a piece of music
