EYFS - Reception
EYFS - Reception
The main areas of learning from the EYFS curriculum that support music in KS1 and KS2 come from:
Expressive Arts and Design · Communication and Language · Physical Development
Expressive arts – play instruments with increasing control to express their feelings and ideas.
Communication and Language - Listen carefully to rhymes and songs, paying attention to how they sound. Learn rhymes, poems and songs.
Physical Development - combine different movements with ease and fluency.
In EYFS the children are given the opportunities to move and dance to a range of rhymes and songs, explore and play a variety of untuned and tuned instruments and create their own songs and dances to perform to others. These early opportunities enable them to develop their understanding and love of music, plus their ability to communicate their own thoughts and feelings which prepares them for the Year 1 curriculum to follow.
In Reception the children will
- Listen attentively, move to and talk about music, expressing their feelings and responses.
- Sing in a group or on their own, increasingly matching the pitch and following the melody.
- Explore and engage in music making and dance, performing solo or in groups.
- Show some control in using their singing voice to create changes in dynamics, tempo, or pitch.
- Sing in tune and keep to the beat.
- Show some control in playing percussion instruments to create changes in dynamics, tempo, or pitch.
- Compose, adapt, and play their own composition/tune using simple symbols, pictures or patterns.
- Begin to record own composition in pictures/symbols.
- Listen to pieces of music and recognises some familiar instruments that are playing.
- Express their opinion on a piece of music.
- Talk about what a piece of music reminds them of.
End of year Early Learning Goals:
Sing a range of well-known nursery rhymes and songs. BI&E
Perform songs, rhymes, poems and stories with others, and (when appropriate) try to move in time with music. BI&E
