Music
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At Early Years, the key knowledge progression document takes reference from the following documentation: Early Years Framework, Development Matters and Birth to 5 Matters.
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At key stage 1 and 2, the key knowledge progression document takes full account of the national curriculum’s requirements and groups these into the following strands:
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Singing and performing
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Playing an instrument and performing
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Listening and Appreciating
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Composing
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History of music
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These strands have been selected to reflect the key knowledge and skills in the national curriculum subject content.
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Skills are dependent on specific knowledge. A skill is the capacity to perform and in order to perform a deep body of knowledge needs to be acquired and retained. These knowledge statements should be what pupils retain for ever. In other words, this knowledge is within their long-term memory and will be retained.
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When considering pupils’ improvement in subject specific vocabulary, pupils could be provided with a knowledge organiser which contains the relevant words used for music for their age group.