Knowledge and skills:

During Year 5 & Year 6 the children learn to:

• breathe in the correct place when singing;

• maintain their part whilst others are performing their part;

• improvise within a group using melodic and rhythmic phrases;

• change sounds or organise them differently to change the effect;

• compose music which meets specific criteria;

• use notation to record groups of pitches (chords);

• use a music diary to record aspects of the composition process;

• choose the most appropriate tempo for a piece of music;

• describe, compare and evaluate music using musical vocabulary;

• explain why they think music is successful or unsuccessful;

• suggest improvement to their own work and that of others;

• contrast the work of famous composers and explain their preferences.

• sing in harmony confidently and accurately,
• perform parts from memory;
• take the lead in a performance;
• use a variety of different musical devices in their composition (including melody, rhythms and chords);
• evaluate how the venue, occasion and purpose affects the way a piece of music is created;
• analyse features within different pieces of music;
• compare and contrast the impact that different composers from different times have had on people of that time.