Curriculum Leader: Katie Mabey

Miss Mabey is our Music Leader and is responsible for this curriculum area.Miss Mabey is responsible for:

• Ensuring consistency of subject teaching, including through observations and ‘book looks’.
• Curriculum sequencing and mapping.
• Meeting with Local Authority and Ofsted inspectors about the subject.
• Supporting planning, team-teaching, and delivering CPD.
• Attending subject network meetings.
• Organising subject events

Music at Chiltern Primary School

At Chiltern Primary School, we follow the Hampshire Music Service Curriculum Musical Map. It provides six half-termly units of work for each year group from YR to Y6 enabling schools to plan a guided journey to musical independence for all their pupils! The map includes a combination of standalone musical units, seasonal units and other units linked to popular topics, this offers schools the flexibility to rearrange and substitute other topics to create the perfect musical itinerary for each year group (additional units are added to this resource on a regular basis for this purpose).

Each half-termly unit focuses on developing specific musical knowledge and skills as outlined in the Hampshire Music Service Pathways to Musical Independence documents – age-related expectations for each year group. Each set of units builds on and reinforces the learning explored in previous years, new learning is introduced through a logical sequence of activities.  Learning is cumulative (from one year to the next) throughout the map so schools who are considering using this resource for the first time will need to start by assessing their student’s current level of musical understanding and skills and then start at the appropriate point in the map e.g. Y6 students who have only had limited musical learning opportunities might need to start with the Y4 units of work.
 

Each unit comprises of:

• a medium-term plan
• a set of teaching notes with the activities explained (which could include song lyrics and notation), audio tracks and flashcards
• a teaching PowerPoint with embedded sound files and hyperlinks to make each unit accessible and easy to teach and the teaching notes are included in the notes section with each slide.  The easiest way to use this resource is to print the PowerPoint in “note” form so the teacher can access the teaching notes whilst each slide is projected
• No additional resources are needed to teach these units. 

Our units of work

Year 1 Autumn

The Three Little Bears

This unit of work teaches the children about 'Pitch'. Children will explore, respond to and recognise high, middle and low sounds. 

Year 1 Autumn

Walking the Dog

This unit of work teaches the children about 'Duration'. Children will explore, respond to and recognise patterns of long and short sounds and to steady beats in music heard and performed. This unit of work will also teach the children about 'Structure' where the children will explore, respond to and recognise simple structures including opening and endings, beginning-middle-end, echoes and responses. 

Year 1 Spring

As Cold As Ice

This unit of work teaches the children about 'Duration'. Children will continue to explore, respond to and recognise patterns of long and short sounds and to steady beats in music heard and performed. This unit of work also teaches the children about 'Structure'. The children will continue to explore, respond to and recognise simple structures including beginning-middle-end and responses. 

Year 1 Spring

Old Castle

This unit of work teaches the children about 'Playing'. Children will explore and use an increased range of sounds (including body sounds) beginning to use correct percussion techniques and showing an awareness of the use of the dominant hand. 

Year 1 Summer

Can I be helpful too?

This unit of work teaches the children about 'Texture'. Children will explore, respond to and recognise solo sounds and layers of sound. 

Year 1 Summer

Toys

This unit of work teaches the children about 'Tempo'. The children will explore, use and respond to, recognise and identify loud, moderate, quiet and silence. 

Year 2 Autumn

Dragons

This unit of work teaches the children about 'Dynamics'. The children will respond to, recognise and identify getting louder and quieter. 

Year 2 Autumn

Christmas is Coming

This unit of work teaches the children about 'Pitch'. The children will respond to, recognise and identify higher and lower sounds as well as the general shape of melodies. The children will begin to recognise steos, leaps and repeated notes. 

Year 2 Spring

Man on the Moon

This unit of work teaches the children about 'Timbre'. The children will identify the way sounds are made (vocalised, shaken, struck, scraped, plucked, strummed, blown or produced electronically) and can be used. 

Year 2 Spring

Jolly Rogers

This unit of work teaches the children about 'Structure'. The children will respond to, recognise and identify a range of contrasting structures, in particular, verse and chorus. 

Year 2 Summer

Wispy Willow

This unit of work teaches the children about 'Pitch'. The children will continue to respond to, recognise and identify higher and lower sounds and the general shape of melodies. The children will also recognise steps, leaps and repeated notes. 

Year 2 Summer

Minibeasts on the Move

This unit of work teaches the children about 'Duration'. The children will respond to, recognise and distinguish between steady beat and rhythm patterns. The will also think about how they fit together. 

Year 3 Autumn

In the Hall of the Mountain King

This unit of work teaches the children about 'Tempo'. The children will identify, use and understand getting faster and slow in finer graduations. 

Year 3 Autumn

Christmas is Coming

This unit of work teaches the children about 'Pitch'. The children will identify steps, leaps and repeated notes in melodies and begin to explore different scale patterns (major). 

Year 3 Spring

Chinese Lanterns

This unit of work teaches the children about 'Texture'. The children will identify the use and purpose of different layers in music heard, created and performed. 

Year 3 Spring

Mystic Moments

This unit of work teaches the children about 'Timbre'. The children will identify a range of non-percussion instruments by name and distinguish between different ways of playing percussion instruments.

Year 3 Summer

Our School

This unit of work teaches the children about 'Structure'. The children will develop an understanding of conventional structures including question and answer patterns. They will also explore simple ostinato.

Year 3 Summer

Volcanoes

This unit of work teaches the children about 'Pitch'. The children will continue to identify steps, leaps and repeated notes in melodies and explore the further use of scale patterns. 

Year 4 Autumn

Anglo Saxons

This unit of work teaches the children about 'Dynamics'. The children will explore how to use dynamics for expressive effect. 

Year 4 Autumn

Find it, Make it, Play it

This unit of work teaches the children about 'Texture'. The children will identify and use different types of texture including solo, unison, ostinato parts and layers.

Year 4 Spring

Super Hereos

This unit of work teaches the children about 'Duration'. The children will identify and understand how rhythm patterns fit to steady beats using 4 metre.

Year 4 Spring

Reading Rhythms

This unit of work teaches the children about 'Duration'. The children will identify and understand how rhythm patterns fit to a steady beat using 2, 3 and 4 metre. 

Year 4 Summer

River's Journey

This unit of work teaches the children about 'Pitch'. The children will identify melodic shape and explore different scale patterns - minor.

Year 4 Summer

Lucy in the sky with Diamonds

This unit of work teaches the children about 'Pitch'. The children will identify melodic shape and explore different scale patterns - C major scale. 

Year 5 Autumn

A Bao A Qu

This unit of work teaches the children about 'Structure'. The children will explore and use a wider range of developmental structures and expressive structures including musical opposites, retrograde and palindrome.

Year 5 Autumn

Read, Write and Remember to Twinkle

This unit of work teaches the children about 'Duration'. The children will identify and begin to understand more complex rhythm patterns. 

Year 5 Spring

Frozen Lands

This unit of work teaches the children about 'Pitch'. The children will explore, recognise and identify a minor key and how it influences music. 

Year 5 Spring

Map Rappers

This unit of work teaches the children about 'Structure'. The children will explore and use a wider range of developmental structures e.g. rap

Year 5 Summer

Space

This unit of work teaches the children about 'Timbre'. The children will identify instruments within families and different families. The children will also explore vocal combinations as well as refining use of voices and percussion instruments.

Year 5 Summer

Greek Tragedy

This unit of work teaches the children about 'Dynamics and Tempo'. The children will understand how a wide range of tempi and dynamics can be manipulated for expressive effect.

Year 6 Autumn

Short Ride in a Fast Machine

This unit of work teaches the children about 'Duration'. The children will identify and understand more complex rhythms and metres counting in 9 and 6 and possibly 5 and 7. 

Year 6 Autumn

Calypso Sparkle

This unit of work teaches the children about 'Texture'. The children will use a range of harmonic devices with greater awareness and understanding in a Calyspo context (chords). 

Year 6 Spring

Amazing Machines

This unit of work teaches the children about 'Pitch'. The children will explore, recognise and identify a major scale.