Heathrow Primary School
Heathrow Primary School
Year 1
Autumn 1 – Pulse and Rhythm (Theme: All About Me)
As musicians, we started by learning how to feel the pulse in music and experiment with percussion instruments. We then moved onto learning how to play rhythms on untuned percussion instruments to deepen their understanding of pulse and rhythm. We then had the chance to develop our ‘thinking voice’ by internalising the pulse when listening to music. Using a technic called the call and response method, we listened out for rhythms and then repeat them. After identifying the pulse in several songs, we practise performing either the pulse or rhythm to highlight the differences between the two.
Spring – Sound Patterns (Theme: Fairy Tales)
In the Spring Term in Music, Year 1 will be looking at music surrounding the theme of ‘fairy tales’ and focusing on the three little pigs. Children will be learning about timbre and rhythmic patterns. They will be learning how to change their voice to represent different characters, choosing suitable sounds to represent different things that happen in the stories and expanding their musical vocabulary by learning about timbre and what it means.
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