EYFS to KS2 Music Skills Overview - Tanglin Trust School

Creating music
Appraising
& listening
Listening
Repertoire
others are playing
Maintain a simple part within an ensemble
To be able to clap/play a beat against a different beat and to be able to
‘come in’ at the right moment at the right tempo
Improvise repeated patterns (ostinato)
Add a part in group work which is different from the others but fits
Use knowledge of musical elements to compose descriptive music
choose, order, combine and control sounds with awareness of their
combined effect to be able to improvise an 8-beat rhythm keeping in time
with the pulse
Recognise how musical elements can be used together to create moods &
effects
Describe musical characteristics of a sections of music using appropriate
vocabulary
Can say how they changed or improved their work.
Can indicate strong and weak beats through movements
Can determine movement by step, by leaps or by repeats as well as cresc,
dim & instrumentation in an extract of music
Can determine one strand of music or more than one strand
Can identify the tempo of music as fast, moderate, slow, getting faster or
getting slower
Can recognize simple structures & differentiate between the contrasting
sections of a song
To be able to understand the difference between a pulse and a rhythm
Identify strong & weak beats in 4/4 & 3/ 4 musical extracts through
movement
Grieg; ‘In The hall of the Mountain King
Holst; ‘Mars’ & ‘Venus’ from ‘The Planets Suite’