Voice and body first
Children hum, sing simple sounds, stretch, copy movement and get physically ready for music-making.
Nursery Music Curriculum Map
Structure
How Nursery music is structured
Each Nursery session follows the same practical pattern: wake up the voice, get the body ready, copy a body-percussion beat, explore an imaginative place through sound and movement, then settle with Calming Zone drawing, writing or listening.
The same core activity types return through the year, so pupils get useful repetition while the music, vocabulary and challenge step forward.
Pulse, rhythm and imagination
Body Percussion Beat and Explorer Videos help children copy patterns, move safely and describe sounds as high, low, loud, quiet, long or short.
Calm creative finish
Calming Zone activities bring breathing, listening, drawing or early writing into the lesson, supporting self-regulation alongside expressive arts.
Pupils
What pupils do
The curriculum is designed to feel active in the classroom. Pupils listen, sing, move, practise and talk about music instead of only reading about it.
- Copy hums, La, Oo and E sounds, actions and body-percussion patterns with adult modelling.
- Move, vocalise and describe sounds in farm, beach, jungle, space, sea and other imaginative settings.
- Settle after active music through breathing, listening, drawing and simple musical talk.
Delivery
Weekly lesson, daily bursts, or both
Teachers can open the planned session and teach it as a music lesson, or use the same mapped activities as shorter moments across the week.
Teach weekly
Use the route as a dedicated 30-45 minute music slot with a clear lesson flow.
Teach in bursts
Split the same mapped content into songs, listening games, movement, vocabulary and practice moments across the week.
Keep the map
Whether lessons are weekly or split up, the underlying route still gives leaders a coherent progression story.
Teacher view
How the year route appears to teachers
Each year route becomes a class view with the current term, session order and activity sequence visible. Teachers can open the next step without reinterpreting the curriculum map.
This shared view keeps the year pages grounded in product proof while avoiding a heavy screenshot gallery on every page.
Course menu
Teachers can see where they are in the route and move between the course homepage and terms.
Session cards
The activities are ordered so the lesson can be taught from the screen.
Notes nearby
Teacher notes stay close to the activity rather than living in a separate planning file.
Explore the curriculum in your school
Open the pre-curated schemes, preview the activity flow and see whether the route fits your timetable.