Download Itchen Abbas Overview for Music At Itchen Abbas Primary School

Itchen Abbas Overview for Music
At Itchen Abbas Primary School, our curriculum is planned in integrated topics. We teach our subjects within the context of the main focus,
usually history, geography or science. Therefore, all our curriculum subjects will link to the main theme for the half term.
Swifts (Y1&2)
Cycle A
(2014-15)
Swifts (Y1&2)
Cycle B
(2015-16)
Herons
(Y3&4)
Cycle A
(2014-15)
Herons
(Y3&4)
Cycle B
(2015-16)
Kingfishers
(Y5&6)
Cycle A
(2014-15)
Kingfishers
(Y5&6)
Cycle B
(2014-15)
Autumn
Spirituals – Native American Music (Link
with Christopher Columbus)
Songs for our Christmas Production
Voice - call and response songs and
action songs
Traditional English Folk Music from the
1800’s (link with Florence Nightingale and
Emily Davison
Voice – singing folk songs
The music of Stomp (music inspired by
objects, links to The Stone age)
Romans
Music through time in Rome (Ancient
Roman music to Opera)
Learning to play the recorder
The Planet Suite Holst – listening and
evaluating and composing own Planet
Suite piece
Production of ‘The Way’ with Winchester
Cathedral and Winchester University
choir and orchestra
Music from Around the World
Garage Band – composition using ICT
technology
Spring
Place knowledge – human and physical.
Characteristics of areas of UK
The First Aeroplane Flight Neil Armstrong
Geographical skills and fieldwork
Voice, percussion playing and
composition - sea shanties
Edward Elgar The Severn Suite 1930
Composing music inspired by methods of
transport
Performance using percussion
instruments and composition
World Music
History of musical instruments and
modern popular music (from Elvis to One
Direction). Orchestra Unwrapped –
Performing and composing with the
Basingstoke Philharmonia Orchestra
Pop Music – the history of modern pop
music – listening to and composing our
own. Orchestra Unwrapped – Performing
and composing with the Basingstoke
Philharmonia Orchestra
Listen to Me – Recorders
Listen to Me - Ukulele
Summer
Music for Dinosaurs – songs about
dinosaurs and creating our own dinosaur
inspired music
(Daddy Donut Dinosaur Songs)
Learning to play the recorder
Listen to Me – Recorders
Listen to Me - Ukulele
Music for our Production – performing
songs and playing instruments
Peter and the Wolf Prokofiev 1936
Carnival of the Animals Saint Sean Saint
Sean 1836
Learning to play the recorder
Composer Study
From Bagdad to Andalusia traditional
music
Learning to play the recorder and ukulele
Voice – songs for our Christmas
Production
Voice – rehearsing songs for the
production
Music for our Production – performing
songs and playing instruments