Folk in the Key Stage 1 National Curriculum for Music

This document gives an indication of how folk and traditional music can help teachers enhance and deliver aspects of the National Curriculum for Music in England at Key Stage 1, and suggests a range of supporting resources created by folk artist-educators.

It gives details for Key Stage 1 Music Subject Contents:

• Use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes
• Play tuned and untuned instruments musically
• Listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music
• Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music.