King's Hedges Primary School

Y3 Composition Work

In Year 3, we build upon the excellent notation and composition work started in Y1 and 2, but now we start to draw our musical notes more formally on the stave.  We use a series of ‘sports rhythms’ to help us build more extended composition and then separate our notes into 4-beat bars using bar lines.

There is so much to think about, but our current Year 3s have done a brilliant job, both on drawing their notes accurately and clearly, but also on creating interesting and well-thought out compositions.

Here are some examples of their compositions: