The Year 1 music programme follows 12 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

Ourselves - The children explore ways of using their voices expressively. They develop skills of singing while performing actions, and create an expressive story.

Number - The children develop a sense of steady beat through using movement, body percussion and instruments.

Animals - The children develop an understanding of pitch through using movement, voices and instruments. They identify contrasts of high and low pitches, and create animal chant sounds and sequences.

Weather - The children use voices, movement and instruments to explore different ways that music can be used to describe the weather.

Spring Term

Machines - The children explore beat through movement, body percussion and instruments. They combine steady beat with word rhythms and explore changes in tempo.

Seasons - The children develop further their vocabulary and understanding of pitch movements, exploring pitch through singing, tuned percussion and listening games.

Our School - The children explore sounds found in their school environment. They investigate ways to produce and record sounds, using IT to stimulate musical ideas related to geography.

Pattern - The children develop an understanding of metre – groups of steady beat – through counting, body percussion and readying scores.

Summer Term

Story Time -  The children develop an understanding of metre – groups of steady beat – through counting, body percussion and readying scores.

Our Bodies - The children respond with their bodies to steady beat and rhythm in music. They experience combining rhythm patterns with steady beat, using body percussion.

Travel - The children develop their performance skills and learn songs about travel and transport from around the world.

Water - The children use voices, movement and instruments to explore changes of pitch. They develop a performance with different vocal pitch shapes and tuned percussion.