Seven Mills
Primary School
Ambitious, Compassionate
& Empowered
Music is led by our specialist music teacher, Laura Nash. Our vision for Music is that:
"Learning Music is not a privilege. It is a right. Music does not belong to some. It belongs to everyone.
Music is a unique and special subject yet it encompasses other curriculum subjects in meaningful ways.
Music is a time traveller and a global traveller. It connects us to the past and the future. It roots us in our world and connects us with the wider world.In Music we can achieve excellence individually and together. Through Music we can find our voice, our community and ourselves.
At Seven Mills, we want every child to have access to everything that Music offers through active, engaging, meaningful, enjoyable, challenging and above all musical learning experiences."
Alongside our weekly Music lessons in which we cover the National Curriculum, we are proud to offer each child additional Music tuition. In Year 1 and Year 2 we offer additional singing; in Year 3 and Year 4 we teach the recorder; in Year 5 we teach the ukulele and in Year 6 we teach drumming. Our curriculum map is below:
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Autumn 1 |
Autumn 2 |
Spring 1 |
Spring 2 |
Summer 1 |
Summer 2 |
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Early Years |
My Family Songs and Singing Games |
Celebration! Listening, dance and movement |
Old Macdonald had a farm (Farm) Instruments and sound effects |
Rawr! Rawr! Dinosaur! (Dinosaurs) Sounds, symbols and patterns Musical changes |
Time to save the world! (Heroes) Musical story-telling |
To infinity and beyond (Space) Musical Space Adventures |
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Year 1 |
Our Class Orchestra Voices, bodies and instruments Key outcome: exploration and improvisation |
Toys (The Nutcracker- Christmas) Key outcome: story performance |
Carnival! Key outcome: performance |
Garden Fun (Flight of the Bumblebee) Key outcome: response |
Weather Key outcome: composition |
Ahoy there! Key outcome: composition |
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Year 2 |
African Call and Response Key outcomes: improvisation; performance (singing and playing) |
Fire and Ice Key outcome: music and dance performance |
Pets (exploring pitch) Key outcome: performance (singing and playing) |
Animal Magic (Carnival of the Animals) Musical features and Instrumentation Key outcome: composition (large) |
Musical Machines Key outcome: composition |
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Year 3 |
Handing On and Passing Down Traditional Folk Music around the World Key outcome: presentation and performance Y3 assembly |
Caribbean Song Calypso Composing accompaniments Key outcome: composition and performance |
Minimalism and Musical Motifs Rhythm and melody Key outcomes: composition (small) and notation |
Stories in Music Magical Melodies/ Forest dream/ Night on Bare Mountain Key outcome: composition (structure) and graphic scores |
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Year 4 |
LSO Project Pulse, rhythm, repeated patterns Key outcome: composition and performance |
Doctor Who Technology Project Key outcome: composition |
Gamelan Pentatonic melodies Key outcome: response/ ensemble performance |
Express Yourself (LPO resources) Key outcome: listening and response |
Soundtrack Key outcome: composition |
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Year 5 |
Fanfare! Rhythm, chords, colour and melody Key outcome: composition |
The Wiseman and the Star Key outcome: vocal and instrumental performance |
Incidental Music Epic Scenes and Sagas Key outcome: improvisation and performance |
Earth from above: Mood Music Key outcome: response and composition |
Musical Voyager The Golden Records Key outcomes: listening and appraisal; history of Music |
LSO Project - Structure, ensemble, playing in parts, leading, conducting and performing Key outcome: composition and ensemble performance (wider audience) |
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Year 6 |
Contemporary Connections Anna Meredith Women in Music Experimental composition techniques Key outcomes: performance, composition |
MAQAM/Scale (Arabic Scales/Western Scales) Arabic Folk Tradition; devotional Nasheed British Isles Folk Key outcome: Improvisation |
LSO project - vocal, singing, pitch Outcome: performance, concert attendance |
Wartime Blues Chord Progressions Outcome: composition (Songwriting) |
Gershwin and the City Outcome: response and composition |
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