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Intent We believe that our children are entitled to a broad and balanced curriculum that inspires creativity, develops a love of music and talented musicians. In line with the national curriculum 2014, the curriculum aims to ensure that all pupils: · perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions, including the works of the great composers and musicians · learn to sing and to use their voices, to create and compose music on their own and with others, have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument, use technology appropriately and have the opportunity to progress to the next level of musical excellence · understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated, including through the inter-related dimensions: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations. We also take into account the Model Music Curriculum and its starting point the ambition that every young person should be able to experience music and to make progress
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Implementation
Weekly Music lessons are planned in units and give children the opportunity to increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement.
Pupils will actively participate in musical activities drawn from a range of styles and traditions.
Musical progression has been mapped for each year group and is used to ensure that children have opportunities to build upon their skills and knowledge year on year and improve their work.
The school uses Music Express at its core and this is mapped where possible to fit with the main theme or topic for the term, where this is not possible music sessions stand alone.
The school has a tradition of learning ukuleles and has more recently purchased class sets of boom whackers.
Impact
Through our music curriculum our children will become engaged, creative, confident musicians with a genuine interest in the subject with the desire to extend their knowledge and skills.
Our children will leave primary school with a range of skills to enable them to succeed in Secondary school and be able to enjoy and appreciate music throughout their lives.
Outcomes for each child are recorded at the end of a unit of work and assessed regularly throughout the year and analysed for next steps.
Early Years
In the Early Years Foundation Unit, the following applies to the children’s learning
Expressive Arts and Design
The development of children’s artistic and cultural awareness supports their imagination and creativity. It is important that children have regular opportunities to engage with the arts, enabling them to explore and play with a wide range of media and materials. The quality and variety of what children see, hear and participate in is crucial for developing their understanding, self-expression, vocabulary and ability to communicate through the arts. The frequency, repetition and depth of their experiences are fundamental to their progress in interpreting and appreciating what they hear, respond to and observe.
ELG: Being Imaginative and Expressive
Children at the expected level of development will: -
Invent, adapt and recount narratives and stories with peers and their teacher;
Sing a range of well-known nursery rhymes and songs
Perform songs, rhymes, poems and stories with others, and – when appropriate – try to move in time with music.
