Music
At Lime Tree Primary School, we believe that all children should have a good understanding of the world they live in and feel part of their community. In our school, Music brings our community together and provides opportunities for all children to sing, play, create and perform. They also have the opportunity to share their thoughts and opinions on different forms of music.
Through the fantastic resource 'Charanga Musical School Scheme', children are given the opportunity to listen to and appreciate a variety of music styles, including Pop, Old-School Hip Hop, Rock and Reggae, where they will also learn the history and understand the meaning behind a variety of songs. Due to Charanga being a repetition-based approach to learning, the same musical concept is revisited enabling a more secure, deeper understanding of musical skills.
This approach also supports children's confidence in using the key vocabulary taught unit upon unit, year after year.
Each Unit taught focus on the key strands of musical learning below:
1. Listening and Appraising
2. Musical Activities
Warm-up Games
Optional Flexible Games
Singing
Playing instruments
Improvisation
Composition
3. Performing
As part of Kingston's Wider Opportunity Programme, all children in Year Four learn to play a percussion instrument.
We also enjoy offering peripatetic lessons through Kingston's Music Service, with children currently learning to play the piano.
While also taught as a stand-alone lesson, Music can be integrated into almost every subject of the curriculum, for example, creating a piece of artwork based on a piece of music, counting, doubling and halving in Maths or learning songs to support knowledge in other subjects.
Successful musicians will leave Lime Tree Primary School as confident and creative individuals who have the skill to be able to play at least one musical instrument, having developed their self-esteem and giving them a sense of achievement too.
Online Resources
Click here to see some of the many excellent resources online that you can access from home to support and enrich your child's learning.
Kingston Music Service (KMS) is the lead organisation for the Kingston Music Education Hub which is funded by Arts Council England. The service provides instrumental and vocal music lessons to young people in Kingston’s schools and music centres. We are very lucky at Lime Tree to be one of the schools KMS tutors teach at.
If you would like your child to learn an instrument, please contact KMS directly either by email at musicservice@kingston.gov.uk or by telephone on 020 8547 5050.
EYFS Milestones
By the end of Reception, I will be able to:
Sing songs and rhymes using my loud, quiet, fast, slow, high and low voice
Sing along to different styles of music
Play percussion instruments to the beat
Recognise and clap along to the pulse in songs
Listen to music and talk about how it makes me feel
Play along to the phrase using the glockenspiel
Improvise rhythms to match phrases
Identify high pitched and low pitched sounds
Year 1 Milestones
By the end of Year 1, I will be able to:
Sing songs and rhymes
Play both the beat and rhythmic patterns using percussion
Play on the beat and offbeat
Recognise different styles of music
Listen to a piece of music and identify instruments
Find the pulse
Create my own sound effects to a song
Create different rhythms to match the song
Year 2 Milestones
By the end of Year 2, I will be able to:
Sing in tune with expression
Create different rhythms to match the song
Use notes to create my own composition
Follow a rhythm grid
Sing in two parts
Listen to music and identify its mood and how this is created e.g through dynamics, tempo, instrumentation etc.
Know how to improve my vocal health e.g. posture
Year 3 Milestones
By the end of Year 3, I will be able to:
Use my voice to create different sounds
Use expression and dynamics to change the sound of my voice
Play along on the glockenspiel
Recognise how a song is structured e.g introduction, chorus
Listen back to my performance and look at ways at improving it
Conduct others
Improvise within a given melodic tone set, keeping the beat
Year 4 Milestones
By the end of Year 4, I will be able to:
Use expression and dynamics to change the sound of my voice
Work together as an ensemble
Read basic rhythmic notation
Identify a style of a piece of music
Recognise the length of notes
Year 5 Milestones
By the end of Year 5, I will be able to:
Play a basic sequence of notes over the top of a backing
Compose a melody on top of a backing track of chords
Play along on the glockenspiels
Improvise and sing my own rap
Compose a piece of music with a beginning, middle and end
Year 6 Milestones
By the end of Year 6, I will be able to:
Maintain an independent part within a small group
Maintain my part in a 2 part piece of music
Compare and contrast the work of composers and a range of music and explain where they fit into History
Describe music using a range of musical language e.g. tempo, dynamics
Record my compositions on a stave
Compose using a variety of different musical devices e.g. melody and rhythm.