EYFS - Nursery
The main areas of learning from the EYFS curriculum that support music in KS1 and KS2 come from:
Expressive Arts and Design · Communication and Language · Physical Development
Expressive arts – play instruments with increasing control to express their feelings and ideas.
Communication and Language - Listen carefully to rhymes and songs, paying attention to how they sound. Learn rhymes, poems and songs.
Physical Development - combine different movements with ease and fluency.
In EYFS the children are given the opportunities to move and dance to a range of rhymes and songs, learn nursery rhymes and songs, explore and play a variety of untuned and tuned instruments and create their own songs and dances to perform to others.
In Nursery, the children will
· Listen with increased attention to sounds.
· Respond to what they have heard, expressing their thoughts and feelings.
· Remember and sing entire songs.
• Sing the pitch of a tone sung by another person (‘pitch match’).
• Sing the melodic shape ( such as up and down, down, and up) of familiar songs
• Create their own songs or improvise a song around one they know.
• Play instruments with increasing control to express their feelings and ideas.
• Join in with singing songs with changes to pitch, tempo, or dynamics.
• Sing a whole familiar nursery rhyme and familiar song.
• Sing in a group and keep in time.
• Play an instrument in time to a simple piece of music.
• Play a wide range of percussion instruments.
• Create suitable sound effects to match a given theme/story.
• Experiment with playing percussion and body instruments and changing the dynamics, pitch, or tempo.
• Play a simple composition by following a sequence of simple symbols, pictures or patterns.
• Talk about how music makes them feel – happy, sad or scary.
• Listen to songs / music with changes to pitch, tempo and dynamics.
• Respond to changes in music.
