Young Voices – 2026
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Progression of Skills Music Map
Topic-Based Curriculum Links
Choir
We are very excited that our Graham James Choir will be travelling to the O2 to join the world’s biggest choir at Young Voices 2025!
Below are the links and information for the choir:
- Young Voices Lyric Videos: Get ready for the 2025 concert by learning the songs at home.
- Spotify Playlist: [Young Voices 2025 Playlist] (You’ll need a Spotify account, but the free version works fine.) Young Voices Uk Music Pack 2026 – Album by The Young Voices Choir | Spotify
- YV Music Room: Visit YV Music Room (opens in new tab) to register for an account. You’ll then receive an email with an access code to view all the songs and dance routines.
Music Overview Key Stages 1 and 2
Key Stage 1
In KS1 pupils should be taught to:
- 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.
Key stage 2
In KS2 pupils should be taught to:
- sing and play musically with increasing confidence and control.
- develop an understanding of musical composition, organising and manipulating ideas within musical structures and reproducing sounds from aural memory.
- play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression
- improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music
- listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory
- use and understand staff and other musical notations
- appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians
- develop an understanding of the history of music.
