Autumn Term

At Parkway Academy, we use the GetSet4Music scheme to evoke a love of music in our students. They will have the opportunity to listen to different genres of music and appraise them, perform using instruments and improvise their own parts to existing beats. 

They will use technical vocabulary to discuss music with their peers, while being exposed to a wide variety of music to help lay the foundational blocks required to build a passion for music. Classes will perform a song of their choice at the end of the school year.

 

Year 3 – Stone Age

To read, perform and write 1 beat and ½ beat notes. 

To read and perform rhythms in time with the pulse. 

To read, perform and write rhythm notation using ½ beat, 1 beat, 2 beat and 4 beat notes. 

To notate and perform rhythms including a rest. 

To compose and perform rhythm notation as an ensemble. 

To perform as an ensemble and provide feedback to others. 

 

Year 4 - Jazz

To explore vocal improvisation within the context of scatting and jazz music. 

To perform a rhythmic pattern with a secure sense of pulse using body percussion. 

To create a simple improvisation to a known rhythm using the pentatonic scale. 

To create swinging rhythms in 4, 3 and 2 beat groupings and use this to compose a melody. 

To begin to compose a piece of music using key features of jazz. 

To compose and perform using key features of jazz music and express evaluative opinions. 

 

Year 5/6 - Hip Hop

To explore vocal improvisation within the context of scatting and jazz music. 

To perform a rhythmic pattern with a secure sense of pulse using body percussion. 

To create a simple improvisation to a known rhythm using the pentatonic scale. 

To create swinging rhythms in 4, 3 and 2 beat groupings and use this to compose a melody. 

To begin to compose a piece of music using key features of jazz. 

To compose and perform using key features of jazz music and express evaluative opinions.