The Year 5 music programme follows 6 units that all have a cross curricular link to enable application of skills across the entire curriculum. Below is a break down of the units that children will look at each term within their music lessons.

Autumn Term

Our Community - The song Jerusalem provides the basis for looking at changes through time. The children are given opportunities to compose and perform music inspired by their local community, both past and present.

Solar System - Embark on a musical journey through the solar system, exploring how our universe inspired composers including Claude Debussy, Gustav Holst and George Crumb. The children learn a song, and compose pieces linked to space.

Spring Term

Life Cycles - Explore the human life cycle with music by Johannes Brahms, Luciano Berio, Franz Liszt and Claudio Monteverdi. The wide variety of musical moods, styles and genres inspires singing, performing and composing using new techniques and structures.

Keeping Healthy - From body-popping and gospel-singing to swimming and cycling, the children are taken through their paces, and they put together an invigorating performance using new musical techniques.

Summer Term

At the Movies - The children will be creating soundtracks and film scores, and they compose their own movie music.

Celebration - A lively celebration in song for the children to perform at a class assembly, a school concert or fete. The celebratory, upbeat mood will soon have the audience joining in.