The halls are alive with the sound of music at Sacred Heart. Music is taught weekly to all year groups with a mix of national curriculum and whole class instrumental teaching delivered by our specialist music teacher Mrs Jane Roe from Art Form Leeds.

Our Years 3 to 6 receive weekly singing sessions as part of the Diocese of Leeds Schools Singing Programme. These are delivered by an expert Choral Director from the Diocese, focusing on positive engagement with singing and supporting the Catholic life of the school through sacred music. The sessions offer practical and incremental coverage of areas of the music curriculum, including notation, in a two-year curriculum framework developed by the Diocese, the National Schools Singing Programme and the National Youth Choir of Scotland. Pupils also have the opportunity to join one of the Diocese’s acclaimed after-school choirs.  You can find online resources that support this work on the Schools Singing Programme’s YouTube channel: www.schoolssingingprogramme.org.uk. Our local Diocese choir is Leeds Cathedral Choir – please contact office@dioceseofleedsmusic.org.uk for more information about joining.

Our music plan by year group
 

	Reception	Year 1	Year 2	Year 3	Year 4	Year 5	Year 6
Unit 1	Introducing Instruments: Learning how to handle and play instruments properly	Hey You!: Using names to develop rhythmic awareness	Animal Music: Investigating Saen-Saints’ ‘Carnival of the Animals’	Whole class Ukulele	Haunted House: Focus on descriptive music	Rhythm and Pulse: Understanding ‘pulse’ and investigating rhythmic notation	The Building Bricks of Music: Exploring the inter-related dimensions of music
Unit 2	Preparation for Nativity performance: Development of vocal skills	Preparation for Nativity performance: Development of vocal skills	Preparation for Nativity performance: Development of vocal skills		Music in Space: Composing in response to a given brief	Dragon Scales: Investigating the pentatonic scale	Form and Structure: Exploring common musical structures
Unit 3	Dinosaur Music: Focus on dynamics – loud and quiet	Peace at Last: Investigating timbre and using sounds appropriately	Rain Rain Go Away: Music and the weather		Egyptian Music: Using Egyptian features as musical stimuli	Britain Since 1930: Exploring music of the Second World War	Exploring the Orchestra: Learning about the instruments and exploring timbres
Unit 4	Let’s Go Fast and Slow: Focus on tempo – fast and slow	Exploring Duration: Focus on long and short sounds	Friendship: Focus on singing and call-and- response		Ostinato: Understanding how to use the musical feature	Samba: Preparation for large-scale performance
Unit 5	My Stories: Introducing movement to music	Jack and the Beanstalk: Vocal project