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"Feel the pulse"

The following chart show how the new A & C Black scheme can be used to provide broad coverage in line with the National Curriculum for Music for England.

This guidance is designed to supplement the materials available in this new scheme of musical activities.

Special Note: I am grateful for the work of Alison Keates and Dot Atkin (Shropshire Music Service) who worked with me in the preparation of this new support material.

  Music 2000 Programme of Study for Year 1  
  Key Stage 1 A & C Black 'Music Express' "Feel the pulse"
  Pupils should be taught how to: Objectives Activities
  Controlling sounds through singing and playing - performing skills   Page/Activity
1a use their voices expressively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes To explore a steady beat using the voice 24/1; 24/3; 26/1; 32/1;
1b play tuned and untuned instruments To play in time to a beat; 25/1;
1c rehearse and perform with others To perform patterns to accompany a song; 28/2; 30/3; 32/3;
  Creating and developing musical ideas - composing skills   Page/Activity
2a create musical patterns To create musical patterns; 28/2; 28/3; 30/1; 30/2; 32/2;
2b explore, choose and organise sounds and musical ideas    
  Responding and reviewing - appraising skills   Page/Activity
3a explore and express their ideas and feelings about music using movement, dance and expressive musical language To respond to music using movement; To move to a pulse; 24/2; 25/2; 25/3;
3b make improvements to their own work To listen to their music and make improvements; 32/3;
3c Not applicable to KS1    
  Listening and applying knowledge and understanding   Page/Activity
4a to listen with concentration and to internalise and recall sounds with increasing aural memory    
4b how the combined musical elements of pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture and silence can be organised and used expressively within simple structures To recognise the difference between beat and rhythm; 26/2; 26/3; 28/1;
4c how sounds can be made in different ways and described using given and invented signs and symbols To respond to signs and symbols; To perform to a score; 26/2; 30/2;
4d how music is used for particular purposes    

 

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