The Three Strands

Listening and Responding

The child will be enabled to:

• listen to, identify and imitate familiar sounds in the immediate environment from varying sources
• recognising the range and versatility of the voice for exploring and imitating sounds
• recognise a range of sounds using body percussion
• explore ways of making sounds using manufactured and home-made instruments 
• listen to a range of short pieces of music or excerpts and discuss in terms of musical concepts (loud, soft, fast, slow, etc.)

Performing

The child will be enabled to:

• explore the use of vocal sounds for making musical sounds
• show the steady beat in listening to and accompanying songs or rhythmic pieces
• recognise and imitate short melodies in echoes, developing a sense of pitch 
• play a range of simple percussion instruments

Composing

The child will be enabled to:

• select sounds from a variety of sources to create simple sound ideas, individually and in groups
• explore the use of graphic notation to organise sequences of sounds
• select sounds and distribute them in a group performance setting
• invent and perform short, simple musical pieces with some control of musical elements (in musical concepts)