In Year 5 the children will complete the following skills:

Understand how pulse, rhythm and pitch work together

Listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory

Improvise with increasing confidence using own voice, rhythms and varied pitch

Sing as part of an ensemble with increasing confidence and precision

Play and perform in solo or ensemble contexts with some accuracy, control, fluency and expression

Compose complex rhythms from an increasing aural memory

Use and develop an understanding of formal, written notation which includes staff, semibreves and dotted crotchets

Develop an increasing understanding of the history and context of music