British International College Cairo

Medium Term Planning Overview

Specialist Subject - Music

Teacher: Wendy John

Week 1
w/c 03/11/16

Week 2
w/c 10/11/16

November and December 2016

Week 3
w/c 17/11/16

Week 4
w/c 24/11/16

Week 5
w/c 01/12/16

Week 6
w/c 08/12/16

Week 7
w/c
15/12/16

Week 8
w/c
20/12/16

EYFS

Aspect of
Learning
Moving and
Handling

Year 1 Age 5-6

This MTPO contains lesson content which follows the Music Express Scheme of Work. All Lesson Learnings and Teaching Activities
are detailed in the respective Curriculum books.
TOPIC: Growth and Change - This unit provides children with the opportunity to be active and interactive, and to develop their coordination, control and movement. Children also learn about the importance of physical activity and healthy eating.
Area of Learning and Development: Physical Development
Musical Focus: Loud & Quiet ( Dynamics )
Aspect of
Learning
Moving and
Handling

Aspect of
Learning
Moving and
Handling

TOPIC: ANIMALS. The children develop an

understanding of pitch through using movement,
voice and instruments in this unit. They identify
contrasts of high and low pitches, and create
animal chant sounds and sequences.
MUSICAL FOCUS: PITCH

Aspect of
Learning
Health and selfcare

Aspect of
Learning
Health and
self-care

Aspect of
Learning Health
and self-care

TOPIC: WEATHER. The children use voices,

movement and instruments to explore different
ways that music can be used to describe the
weather.
MUSICAL FOCUS: EXPLORING SOUNDS

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Musical Production
Rehearsals &
Performance

Lesson Learning

1.Understandin
g pitch, high
and low vocal
sounds.
2.Relating pitch
to high and low
body posture
Teaching
activities
1. Noises in
the night
2. Bears in
the Wood
3. Animal
sounds
Additional:
Rehearsal of
songs for Jack &
Beanstalk
Musical

Lesson Learning
1.Understanding
pitch by singing a
song with
contrasting high
and low melodies
Teaching
Activities
2.Identifying and
playing high and
low pitches in
music.

Teaching
Activities

1.Im A little
egret
2.The crab and
the egret
3.Crab and
egret
instruments

Lesson Learning
1.Exploring and
developing an
understading of
pitch using the
voice and body
movements.
2.Recognising
and performing
pitch changes
and contrasts.

Teaching
Activities 1. Mole
Underground
2. Where do you
live?
3. Animal score
Additional:
Rehearsal of
songs for Jack &
Beanstalk Musical

Year 2

Additional:
Rehearsal of
songs for Jack &
Beanstalk Musical

TOPIC: OUR LAND. The children explore timbre

and texture as they explore descriptive sounds.
They listen to, and perform, music inspired by the
myths.
MUSICAL FOCUS: EXPLORING SOUNDS

Lesson Learning
1.Exploring and
controlling
dynamic,
duration and
timbre with
voices, body
percussion and
instruments.

Teaching
Activities 1.Mister Wind
2.Listen to the
wind
3.Thunder
Additional:
Rehearsal of
songs for Jack &
Beanstalk Musical

Lesson Learning

1.Improvising
descriptive
music.
2.Controlling
duration and
dynamics using
voices, body
percussion and
instruments.

Teaching
Activities
1.Were Indoors
2.Weather
chant
3.Stormy
instruments
Additional:
Rehearsal of
songs for Jack &
Beanstalk
Musical

Lesson Learning
1.Identifying a
sequence of
sounds (structure)
in a piece of music
2.Responding to
music through
movement

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Teaching Activities

1.Mister
Beethovens Storm
2.Thunder and
Wind and Rain
3.Beethoven and
me
Additional:
Rehearsal of songs
for Jack &
Beanstalk Musical

TOPIC: OUR BODIES. Children develop a sense of

steady beat using their own bodies. They respond to
music and play rhythm patterns on body percussion
and instruments.
MUSICAL FOCUS: BEAT

Musical Production
Rehearsals &
Performance

Age 6-7

Lesson Learning

1.Exploring
timbre and
texture to
understand how
sounds can be
descriptive
2.Matching
sounds to
images
3.Creating and
performing
instrumental
music inspired
by myths and
legends
Teaching
Activities1.Map of Myths
Scotland
2.Sounds of
Water
3.Lochs and
monster, seas
and giants

Lesson Learning
1.Listen to and
identify
contrasting
sections of
descriptive music
2.Match
descriptive
sounds to images
3.Identify ways of
producing
sounds.

Teaching
Activities1.Map of Myths England
2.Sounds of ice
and wind
3. Mountain
knights, forest
heroes
Additional:
Rehearsal of
songs for Jack &
Beanstalk Musical

Lesson Learning
1.Listening to,
and evaluating
composition
2.Rehearsing and
refining to
develop a
performance

Teaching
Activities1.Voices in
sequence
2. Instruments in
sequence
3. Map of myths
performance

Additional:
Rehearsal of
songs for Jack &
Beanstalk Musical

Age 7-8 Year 3

Additional:
Rehearsal of
songs for Jack &
Beanstalk
Musical

TOPIC: Sounds this unit explores how

instruments can be classified according to the
sounds they produce. Music from around the world
introduces the children to different timbres and
structures as they create musical conversations.
MUSICAL FOCUS: Exploring Sounds

Lesson Learning
1.Recognising
and responding
to a steady beat.
2. Recognising
and responding
to a rhythm
ostinato pattern
3. Recognising
and playing
rhythmic
patterns.
Teaching
Activities1.The waggon
passes
2.Come to the
party chorus
beat
3.Come to the
party verse
rhythms

Additional:
Rehearsal of
songs for Jack &
Beanstalk Musical

Lesson
Learning1.Recognising
and responding
to a steady beat
at different
tempi
2.Playing
steady beats at
different tempi
on body
percussion and
instruments.
3.Singing in two
parts and
combining
steady beats.
Teaching
Activities
1.Dance of the
knights
2.Slowly walks
my grandad
3. Grandads
band
Additional:
Rehearsal of
songs for Jack &
Beanstalk
Musical

Lesson Learning1.Recognising and

responding to
different steady
beats
2.Performing
rhythmic
movement
patterns to a
steady beat
3.Performing
rhythmic patterns
on percussion.

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Teaching Activities

1.The ball
2.Throw bounce
twist
3. Throw bounce
twist play

Additional:
Rehearsal of songs
for Jack &
Beanstalk Musical

TOPIC: Poetry three contrasting poems are

explored in this unit. The children use voice, body
percussion, instruments and movement to create
their own expressive performance.
MUSICAL FOCUS: Performance

Musical Production
Rehearsals &
Performance

Lesson
Learning
1. Learning
how sounds
are produced
and how
instruments
are classified.
2.Learning
about
idiophones
3. Developing
an
understanding
of call and
response.

Lesson Learning

1.Learning how
sounds are
produced and
how
instruments are
classified
2.Learning
about
aerophones
3.
Understanding
the musical
conversation
structure

Teaching
Activities
1.Idiophones
steel pans
2.Dis long
time. gal
3. Dis long
time, gal
accompanime
nt.

Teaching
Activities1 Aerophones
stamping tubes
2. Tapping conv
ersations
3. Stamping
tubes

Additional:
Rehearsal of
songs for Jack &
Beanstalk
Musical

Additional:
Rehearsal of
songs for Jack &
Beanstalk Musical

Lesson Learning

1.Learning how
sounds are
produced and
how
instruments are
classified
2.Learning
about
chordophones
3.Creating a
call and
response

Teaching
Activities:
1.Chordophone
s sitar and
violin
2.Patterns in
the night
3. Patterns in
the night
performance

Additional:
Rehearsal of
songs for Jack &
Beanstalk Musical

Lesson Learning

1.Enhancing
and extending
the
performance of
a poem using
vocal patterns
2. Creating a
piece of
playground
music out of
layered vocal
patterns as part
of a
performance
piece.

Lesson
Learning1.Exploring
contrasting
moods and
effects as part
of a
performance
Teaching
Activities1.Sounds
2.Tiniest.noisi
est,spookiest
and happiest
sounds
3.Performance

Teaching
Activities1.Playground
song
2.Playground
interludes
3.Playground
song
performance

Additional:
Rehearsal of
songs for Jack &
Beanstalk Musical

Additional:
Rehearsal of
songs for Jack &
Beanstalk
Musical

Lesson Learning

1.Combining two
rhythmic
patterns using
body percussion
and percussion
instruments as
part of a
performance
piece
Teaching
Activities
1.Bug chant
2. Bug rhythms
and movement
3. Bug chant
performance

Additional:
Rehearsal of songs
for Jack &
Beanstalk Musical

Rehearsin
g songs
for
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Rehearsin
g songs
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Age 8-9 Year 4

TOPIC: SOUNDS This units looks at the way

sounds are produced and classified. The children
use their voices to make beatbox sounds, learn to
sing four-part songs, and perform a jazzy round.
MUSICAL FOCUS: EXPLORING SOUNDS

Lesson
Learning
1.Learning
about
classifying
instruments
by the way
sounds are
produced.
2.Learning
some simple
beatboxing
sounds.
3.Singing a
song and
adding
beatboxing
sounds.

Lesson
Learning1.Learning
about
aerophones.
2. Learning to
sing partner
songs
Teaching
Activities1.When the
saints
2.Saint train
swing sing
3.Saint train
swing sing
performance

Teaching
Activities1.Exploring
our voices
2.Mix it up
3.Make it up
Additional:
Rehearsal of
songs for Jack &
Beanstalk
Musical

Additional:
Rehearsal of
songs for Jack &
Beanstalk Musical

Lesson
Learning1.Learning
about
classifying
instruments by
the way sounds
are produced
2.Exploring the
combined
expressive
effects of
different
instrument
groups
Teaching
Activities
1.In the mood
2.Hey Mr Miller
3. Hey Mr Miller
- round

Additional:
Rehearsal of
songs for Jack &
Beanstalk Musical

TOPIC: RECYCLING this unit provides the

opportunity for the children to be creative and make
their own instruments from junk. They use these
instruments to improvise, compose and play junk
jazz music in a variety of different musical
structures.
MUSICAL FOCUS: STRUCTURE
Lesson Learning Lesson
Lesson Learning

Learning
1.Making
1.Making
1.Performing
instruments
instruments
repeating
2.Performing
2.Performing
rhythms
verse and
verse and
2.Chanting in
chorus
chorus
three parts
structure
structure
3.Exploring
3.Interpreting
3.Interpreting
sounds
notation
notation and
4.Performing
4.Improvising
improvising
rondo form
4.Understandi
ng ABA
Teaching
Teaching
structure
Activities
Activities1.Recycling bin
1.Paper tree
Teaching
bhangra
2.Paper groove
Activities2.Recycled
3.Jazz junk
1.Jazz junk
bhangra
instruments
3.The seagull on
2.Jazz junk
the tip
performance
3.Jazz junk
improvisations
Additional:
Rehearsal of
songs for Jack &
Beanstalk Musical

Additional:
Rehearsal of
songs for Jack &
Beanstalk
Musical

Additional:
Rehearsal of songs
for Jack &
Beanstalk Musical

Musical Production
Rehearsals &
Performance

Rehearsin
g songs
for
Musical
Productio
n

Rehearsin
g songs
for Musical
Production
Performan
ce
19Dec16

Year 5

TOPIC: SOLAR SYSTEM embark on a musical journey through the solar system, exploring how our universe
inspired composers including Claude Debussy, Gustav Holst and George Crumb. The children learn a song,
and compose pieces linked to space.
MUSICAL FOCUS: LISTENING

Musical Production
Rehearsals &
Performance

Age 9-10

Lesson
Learning
1.Listening to
music with
focus and
analysing its
composition
using musical
vocabulary
2.Relating
sound
sequences to
images
3
Teaching
Activities1.Sun Blast
2.Music of the
Starry night

Additional:
Rehearsal of
songs for Jack &
Beanstalk
Musical

Lesson
Learning1.Interpreting
images to
create
descriptive
sound
sequences
2.Developing
the use of
dynamics in a
song
3.Listening to
music, focusing
on dynamics
and texture
4. Learning a
melodic
ostinato using
staff notation
Teaching
Activities1.Spiral Galaxy
2. Loudometer
graphs
3.The sky at
night
4.Spinning stars
Additional:
Rehearsal of
songs for Jack &
Beanstalk Musical

Lesson
Learning1.Developing
techniques of
performing rap
using texture
and rhythm.
Teaching
Activities1.Sun blast rap
technique
2.Solar system
speeds
3.Musical orrery

Lesson Learning

1.Learning a
song with a
complex
texture
2.Learning
about the
sound of the
whole tone
scale
Teaching
Activities
1.Footprints on
the Moonchorus and
verse 1
2.Moonlight
textures
3.Footprints on
the Moon
dance section

Additional:
Rehearsal of
songs for Jack &
Beanstalk Musical

Additional:
Rehearsal of
songs for Jack &
Beanstalk Musical

Lesson
Learning1.Listening to
music and
describing its
effects and
use of the
musical
dimensions
2.Performing a
song with
expression
and with
attention to
tone and
phrasing
3.creating a
musical
background to
accompany a
poem

Lesson Learning1.Creating and

presenting a
performance of
song, music and
poetry
Teaching
Activities1.Footprints on
the Moon moon
gravity
2.Space graphics
quiz
3.Solar system
package holiday

Teaching
Activities1.Moon
horizon
2.Earthrise
from Apollo
3.Space shot
Additional:
Rehearsal of
songs for Jack &
Beanstalk
Musical

Additional:
Rehearsal of songs
for Jack &
Beanstalk Musical

Rehearsin
g songs
for
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Productio
n

Rehearsin
g songs
for Musical
Production
Performan
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19Dec16

Age 10-11 Year 6

TOPIC: JOURNEYS The theme of challenging journeys in life resonates through this selection of songs with
thoughts of change and transition, and binds them in an optimistic and uplifting song cycle performance.
MUSICAL FOCUS: SONG CYCLE PERFORMANCE

Musical Production
Rehearsals &
Performance

Lesson
Learning1. Singing
in
three
part
harmo
ny
Teaching
Activities1.Walk.swim.f
y
2.Voices
calling
3.Many miles

Lesson
Learning1.Exploring
expressive
singing in a
part-song with
echoes

Rehearsin
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for
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Productio
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Additional:
Rehearsal of
songs for Jack &
Beanstalk
Musical

Additional:
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songs for Jack &
Beanstalk Musical

Teaching
Activities1.Refuge
2.Wholl be
your refuge
3.Echoes

Lesson
Learning1.Developing
song cycles for
performance
2.Staging a
performance
with awareness
of audience

Lesson Learning

1.Singing a pop
song with
backing
harmony
2.Learning
about a songs
structure

Teaching
Activities1.Final refuge
2.Voices of
refuge
3.Migration and
refuge

Teaching
Activities1.Something
inside so strong
2.In harmony
3.So strong

Additional:
Rehearsal of
songs for Jack &
Beanstalk Musical

Additional:
Rehearsal of
songs for Jack &
Beanstalk Musical

Lesson
Learning1.Learning to
sing major
and minor
note patterns
2.Learning a
pop song with
understanding
of its structure

Lesson Learning1.Developing a
song cycle
performance
incorporating
mixed media
2.developing
planning,
directing and
rehearsing skills

Teaching
Activities1.Scale it up
and down
warm-up
2.Life is what
you make it
3.Make it
shine

Teaching
Activities
1.Journeys song
cycle
2.Multimedia
journeys
3.Our journeys
performance

Additional:
Rehearsal of
songs for Jack &
Beanstalk
Musical

Additional:
Rehearsal of songs
for Jack &
Beanstalk Musical

Rehearsin
g songs
for Musical
Production
Performan
ce
19Dec16