KeyNotes Foundations

One and Two

Students move onto Foundations One and Foundations Two following the Storytellers Curriculum.

The learning aims of the KeyNotes Foundations One curriculum are:

  • To identify and read the notes of the treble clef stave

  • To identify time signatures

  • To use chords I and V to harmonize a melody

  • To compare extracts by identifying similarities and differences using elements such as pitch, tempo, dynamics, rhythm and instrumentation

The learning aims of the KeyNotes Foundations Two curriculum are:

  • To identify and read the notes of the bass clef stave

  • To identify and use staccato and legato articulation

  • To identify and use dynamics consistently

  • To describe how music can represent stories, moods, characters and feelings

  • To compose for a purpose and notate own composition

Lesson Themes

Foundations 1

The Gingerbread Man

Nursery Rhymes

​Treble Clef Instruments

Folk Songs

Foundations 2

Film Music

Carnival of the Animals

Bass Clef Instruments

Pictures at an Exhibition