Music Curriculum Overview
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Autumn 1 and 2 |
Spring 1 and 2 |
Summer 1 |
Summer 2 |
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Year 7 |
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Musicianship 1 (Body percussion and singing) |
Keyboard Skills 1 |
Programme Music |
Samba Drumming |
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Assessment
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Solo performance (practical): can you perform a short keyboard piece accurately and fluently in front of an audience? Can you play a melody in your right hand? Can you play an accompaniment in your left hand?
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Extended Learning
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Autumn 1 and 2 |
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Spring 1 and 2 |
Summer 1 and 2 |
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Year 8 |
Topic
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Keyboard Skills II |
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Funk and Soul music |
Music in the Media (Jingle writing) |
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GarageBand file of sequenced funk basslines and chords submitted: do you understand what a bassline is? Can you play extended chords? Can you record syncopated rhythms? Can you demonstrate basic fluency with GarageBand? |
Composition of a jingle recorded on GarageBand and submitted: can you compose an effective melody? Can you harmonise a melody with chords? |
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Extended Learning |
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Autumn 1 |
Autumn 2 |
Spring 1 and 2 |
Summer 1 |
Summer 2 |
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Year 9 |
Topic
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Horror Film Music |
Samba and Salsa |
The Four chord project (Song writing) |
The Musical Elements |
Keyboard Skills III |
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Assessment
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-Bank of written work produced: can you identify key devices? Can you describe dynamics? Can you recognise certain instruments and families of instruments?
-Composition performed and submitted (practical): can you play and use key devices effectively? Can you match music to events on screen? |
Whole class performance of 2 different samba rhythms. Can you play in time with your neighbour? Can you vocalise all the different rhythms? Can you remember the structure of the piece? Can you lead a section?
Short listening questions based on the context and musical features of Samba music. Do you know the names of the instruments? Where does Samba come from? When is it usually performed?
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GarageBand file submitted of composition: can you compose a chord pattern? Can you compose a bassline? Can you compose an effective melody that fits a chord pattern? Can you demonstrate fluency with GarageBand?
Whole class performances of well-known popular songs. Can you play the chords? Do you know the song structure? Can you sing the lyrics? Can you play the drumbeat? |
-Written listening test: can you use appropriate to accurately describe the musical elements?
-Whole class keyboard orchestra performance with peer evaluations.
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Solo performance (practical): can you perform a short keyboard piece accurately and fluently in front of an audience? Can you play a melody in your right hand? Can you play a chord sequence? Can you play a melody and chords?
Peer evaluation of performances; can you evaluate a performance?
Short listening assessment; can you describe tempo, instrumentation and texture accurately?
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Extended Learning |
-Music theory part 1 - Basic rhythmic notation. Drawing the treble and bass clefs. Drawing the notes in the treble clef on the staff.
-Short research tasks based on Film music and song writing.
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-Music theory part 1 - Basic rhythmic notation. Drawing the treble and bass clefs. Drawing the notes in the treble clef on the staff.
-Short research tasks based on Film music and song writing.
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-Music theory part 2 - Rhythmic notation crotchets, quavers, Crotchet rest, Minim. Drawing the treble and bass clefs. Drawing the notes in the treble clef on the staff. Drawing notes in the bass clef.
-Short research tasks based on Popular music and song writing.
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Music theory part 3 - continue rhythmic notation crotchets, quavers, Crotchet rest, Minims. Drawing the notes in the treble clef on the staff. Drawing notes in the bass clef. Writing symbols for articulation staccato and legato and dynamic markings.
-Short research tasks based on the elements of music
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Music theory part 3 - continue rhythmic notation crotchets, quavers, Crotchet rest, Minims. Drawing the notes in the treble clef on the staff. Drawing notes in the bass clef. Writing symbols for articulation staccato and legato and dynamic markings.
-Short research tasks based on Keyboards
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Year 10 |
Autumn 1 |
Autumn 2 |
Spring 1 |
Spring 2 |
Summer 1 |
Summer 2 |
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Topic
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AoS 4 Popular Music |
AoS 1 and Free composition |
AoS 2 and AoS 3 Set work |
AoS 2 and solo performance |
AoS 3 and free composition |
AoS 3, Free composition and performance |
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Year 11 |
Topic
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AoS 4 and Composition to a brief |
AoS 1 and Composition to a brief |
AoS 2 |
AoS 3 |
Revision of set works Final revision of all AoS Exam technique
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Assessment |
AoS 4 Past paper |
Composition to a brief submitted first draft. Mock 1
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Past paper question on AoS 2 Free composition submitted Composition log submitted |
Mock 2 |
Mock 3 |
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Extended Learning |
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