MUSIC KEY STAGE SCHEME OF WORK.

Curriculum overview Music KS3 Music overview Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms
of creativity. Music lessons will engage and inspire pupils to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians, and so
increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement. Students will work collaboratively to develop
Performance, Composing and Listening skills, with a focus on the elements of music throughout Years 7 8 and 9. Students
will develop teamwork and leadership skills within a creative environment becoming proficient using music technology to
create, record and edit their own musical compositions and performances. Students are given the opportunity to showcase
their work throughout the year. Students will explore three main themes throughout KS3 focusing on: World musical cultures,
Music and the Media and Popular music styles. They will be taught to:

Develop personal and transferable skills needed to be successful, no matter what they go on to do, such as confidence,
creativity, communication and team work.

Play and perform confidently in a range of solo and ensemble contexts using their voice, playing instruments fluently and
with accuracy and expression

Improvise and compose; and extend and develop musical ideas by drawing on a range of musical structures, styles, genres
and traditions Use relevant notations appropriately and accurately in a range of musical styles & genres

Listen with increasing discrimination to a wide range of music from great musicians and composers from around the world.

PERFORMANCE: Pulse, Rhythm, Timing, Maintaining a Part, Dynamics, ensemble communication.

COMPOSITION: Soundscapes, Improvisation, Organisation, Composing within structures, composing to a brief, Music to
describe Character, Group collaboration.
LISTENING: Responses to music, Appraising, Musical Analysis.
NOTATION: Graphic Notation.
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Term 1.2 Term 2.1 Term 2.2 Term 3.1 Term 3.2
YEAR 7

Elements of Music and

Rhythm and Pulse Instruments of the Orchestra Form and Structure Voiceworks Rap (Music Technology)
Graphic Scores

Sound, Graphic Scores,
Pitch, Tempo, Dynamics,
Duration, Texture, Silence,
Timbre, Attack and Decay,
composition, performance.
YEAR 8
Rhythm, Pulse, Beat,
Ostinato, Note Values
(crotchet, minim, quaver,
pair of quavers, semibreve)
and Rhythm Grid Notation.
Mini composition tasks.
Strings, Brass, Woodwind,
Percussion, March Class
Orchestra, Conducting,
Timbre, Tuned and Untuned
Percussion and Instrument
Research. Benjamin
Britten.
Pitch, Tempo, Dynamics,
Duration, Texture, Silence,
Timbre, Attack and Decay.
Reading music and
performing - Ode to Joy by
Beethoven.
Voice Types (SATB),
Harmony/Unison, A
Capella, Call and Response
Songs, Rounds, Song with
Ostinato, Part Songs, Vocal
Textures and Layers.
Singing challenge - group
performance using
microphones.
Focus on rap -
history/origins
Using GarageBand loops
Composing lyrics in 4/4
understanding the rules of
rhyme
Listening examples
Group performance

Term 1.1 Term 1.2 Term 2.1 Term 2.2 -3.1 Term 3.1 -3.2
Offbeat (Reggae) Notation and Keyboard Skills Variations Jazz Improvisation (12 Bar Blues) Indian Music

Calypso, Bass Line, Offbeat
Chords, Syncopation, Reggae and
Texture
Recorded performance of 'Yellow
Bird' on the keyboard.
Rhythm, Pulse, Beat, Ostinato, The Elements of Music, Varying 12 Bar Blues Chords, Blues Structure of an Indian Raga,
Note Values (crotchet, minim, Melodies, Ground Bass, Scale, Improvisation, Walking Traditional Indian Musical
quaver, pair of quavers, Major/Minor, Sequence and Bass Lines, Ragtime Music, Chord Instruments, Tala, Drone, Raga
semibreve) Ornamentation. Vamps, Jazz and Blues Songs. Scale and Mood Improvisation.
Layout of the keyboard
Links between the notation and
the keyboard
Recorded performance of 'Jingle
Bells' on the keyboard.
Editing work on GarageBand.

Term 1.1 -1.2 Term 1.2 - 2.1 Term 2.1 -2.2 Term 3.1 Term 3.2
YEAR 9

Soundtracks (Film Music)
Pitch, Tempo, Dynamics,
Duration, Texture, Silence,
Timbre, Attack and Decay,
composition, performance.
Performance and editing task
of James Bond using
GarageBand.
Fanfares
Performing The Last Post
Composing a fanfare for a
special ocassion
Pitch, sonority, duration,
dynamics, texture and form.
Minimalism
Cyclic Rhythms, Polyrhythms,
Phase Shift, Structure,
Rhythmic and Melodic
Motivic Transformation,
Texture and Layers, Mood,
New Directions in Music,
Links between Music and Art.
Performance of Tubular Bells
Composition task.
Popular Song Preparation for GCSE Music
Musical Arrangements, Cover Academy Calendar to roll
Songs, Popular Songs, Song forward.
Structure, Textures and
Layers, Recording a Song,
Musical Technology and
Digital Effects.