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Year 6

Knowledge, Skills and Understanding breakdown for

Music

Year 6

Performing	Composing (incl notation)	Appraising

• Can they sing a harmony part	• Can they use a variety of	• Can they refine and improve
confidently and accurately?	different musical devices in	their work?
• Can they perform parts from	their composition? (incl	• Can they evaluate how the
memory?	melody, rhythms and chords)	venue, occasion and purpose
• Can they perform using	• Do they recognise that	affects the way a piece of
notations?	different forms of notation serve	music is created?
• Can they take the lead in a	different purposes?	• Can they analyse features
performance?	• Can they use different forms of	within different pieces of
• Can they take on a solo part?	notation?	music?
• Can they provide rhythmic	• Can they combine groups of	• Can they compare and
support?	beats?	contrast the impact that
		different composers from
		different times will have had on
		the people of the time?

	Year 6 (Challenging)

Can they perform a piece of music which contains two (or more) distinct melodic or rhythmic parts, knowing how the parts will fit together?
Can they show how a small change of tempo can make a piece of music more effective?
Do they use the full range of chromatic pitches to build up chords, melodic lines and bass lines?
Can they appraise the introductions, interludes and endings for songs and compositions they have created?

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