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Whole-School Music Curriculum Map

How Kidstrument maps music from Nursery to Year 6 — 12-session routes, flexible lesson structures and clear coverage across listening, performing, composing and notation.

A simple structure from EYFS to Year 6

Kidstrument uses a consistent structure across the primary years: each year has mapped sessions that cover listening, singing, movement, performance, composition and musical vocabulary.

Teachers can either follow ready-made routes or adapt them with the Curriculum Designer — using the same underlying activities so coverage and progression stay clear for subject leaders and SLT.

  • Mapped routes for EYFS, KS1 and KS2.
  • Consistent use of core activity types (songs, listening games, movement, word games, workbooks).
  • Flexible delivery: weekly lessons or shorter “bursts” across the week.
Whole-school music curriculum overview diagram
A delicately planned curriculum for UK primary schools

Weekly lessons or shorter “bursts”

Across the school, Kidstrument sessions can be delivered as:

  • Traditional lessons (for example, one 30–45 minute slot per week), or
  • De-linearised “bursts” across the timetable — a song before registration, a listening game after break, a short movement or vocabulary task later in the day.

Because the curriculum is built from small, focused activities, it adapts to the reality of primary timetables while still giving you a coherent learning journey to show inspectors.

Clear session structure for teachers and pupils

Each session includes a teacher overview and a pupil-friendly recap so learning stays coherent across a term.

Session overview showing planned activities, learning intentions and success criteria
Session overview — what’s planned, intentions and success criteria.
Session recap showing what we learned and what we will learn next time
Session recap — “what we learned” and “what’s next”.
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Explore the curriculum maps

Jump to a phase or year group to see what pupils learn and how sessions build toward your music outcomes.

Curriculum home

Curriculum home Mixed-age (A/B cycles)

EYFS

EYFS overview Nursery Reception

Key Stage 1

KS1 overview Year 1 Year 2

Key Stage 2

KS2 overview Lower KS2 (Y3–Y4) Upper KS2 (Y5–Y6) Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6

How Kidstrument supports your curriculum map

Schemes of Work

Ready-made units from EYFS to Year 6, sequenced so ideas are introduced, developed and revisited.

See Schemes of Work

Curriculum Designer

Create custom routes, move lessons around, and keep whole-school coverage coherent.

See Curriculum Designer

Content Bank

Browse activity series and videos in order, preview before teaching, and target specific skills.

See Content Bank

Tracking & Reporting

Whole-school coverage and outcomes progression without duplicate paperwork.

See tracking & reporting
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