Music, Reception

Being Creative - Responding to Experiences, Expressing and Communicating Ideas

  • Express and communicate their ideas, thoughts and feelings by using a widening range of materials, suitable tools, imaginative and role-play, movement, designing and making, and a variety of songs and musical instruments
  • Respond in a variety of ways to what they see, hear, smell, touch and feel

Creating Music and Dance

  • Begin to move rhythmically
  • Begin to build a repertoire of songs and dances
  • Explore the different sounds of instruments
  • Recognise and explore how sounds can be changed, sing simple songs from memory, recognise repeated sounds and sound patterns and match movements to music

Topic Overview

Term 1: Joining in, Pitch.

Term 2: Duration, Dynamics. 

Term 3: Tempo, Musical Stories.