Year 7

Barnsley Academy – Year 7 Music Curriculum Overview 2023-24 

Autumn Term 

Spring Term 

Summer Term 

Half-Term 1 

 

 

 

Class Focus 

Homework 

 

Class Focus 

Homework 

 

Class Focus 

Homework 

Week 1 

Solo Performance 

 

Mastering Solo Performance 

 

Ensemble Skills 

Expectations 

Kodaly 

Body Percussion 

SFS 

 

Contracts 

Kodaly sounds 

Week 1 

 

 

Week 1 

 

 

Week 2 

Kodaly Revision 

Body Percussion 2 

SFS 

 

Join a music club 

Teaching Gadget (rhythm quiz) 

Week 2 

 

 

Week 2 

 

 

Week 3 

Hand-out of instruments 

Notes on the stave (2 notes) 

 

 

Instrument Practice: hold & long notes 

Week 3 

 

 

Week 3 

 

 

Week 4 

Notes on the stave revision 

MiSST routine for playing & practice 

 

Instrument Practice: Busy Bee & Fooshy Wooshy 

Week 4 

 

 

Week 4 

 

 

Week 5 

Rhythm Names 

 

 

 

Teaching gadget (rhythm names) 

Week 5 

 

 

Week 5 

 

 

Week 6 

 

Progress Review 

(option. Keyboard skills for pitch, note reading & composition) 

 

Practice stars 

Week 6 

 

 

Week 6 

 

 

Week 7 

Time Signatures 

 

 

 

Teaching gadget (time signatures) 

Instrument practice: March 

Week 7 

 

 

Week 7 

 

 

Week 8 

Time Signatures recap 

Instrument practice: March & Traffic 

Week 8 

 

 

Week 8 

 

 

 

 

Week 9 

Tempo 

 

 

Teaching gadget: tempo 

Instrument practice: djembe jam 

Week 9 

 

 

Week 9 

 

 

Week 10 

Tempo Revision 

 

 

 

Instrument practice: djembe jam & dancing shoes 

Week 10 

 

 

Week 10 

 

 

 

 

Week 11 

Walking Talking Mock 

 

 

Teaching gadget: note naming 

 

Week 11 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 12 

Assessment 

 

LAT and PAT 

Instrument practice: Wizard Waltz 

Week 12 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 13 

Instrument performances 

 

Option for further keyboard skills 

(inc. Christmas) 

 

Instrument practice: pieces 1-9 in vamoosh book over Christmas 

Week 13 

 

 

Week 14 

Instrument Performances 

 

Option for further keyboard skills 

(inc. Christmas) 

 

Instrument practice: pieces 1-9 in vamoosh book over Christmas 

Week 14