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Year 3 · Key Stage 2

Music

Singing, playing, composing, and listening with attention.

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  1. Reading the Map: Introduction to Staff NotationChildren discover how music is written down using the treble clef stave. They learn the names of the five lines and four spaces, identify notes C to G, and practise reading simple notated melodies — building the skills to decode written music like reading a map.
  2. Beat, Bar and Rhythm: Notation in ActionChildren discover how rhythm is written down using crotchet, minim and quaver note values, learn how bars group beats in 4/4 time, and practise reading short notated rhythmic patterns.
  3. Sounds Around the World: Musical TraditionsChildren explore three world music traditions — West African drumming, Indian classical music and Brazilian samba — learning to identify their characteristic instruments, rhythms and melodies, and to describe what they hear using musical vocabulary.
  4. Compose Your Own: Melody and PurposeChildren learn how composers make deliberate choices about pitch and rhythm to match a mood or purpose, then plan and notate a short original melody, before evaluating their own work and suggesting an improvement.