Music
How we teach Music
Music will be taught as part of a progressive knowledge-rich curriculum with transferable skills that deepen and ensure enduring understanding, enabling children to become more proficient. The curriculum will engage and inspire children to develop their creativity and a love of music.
The language and vocabulary of music will be taught explicitly ensuring that it is transferable and enables children to listen with discrimination, analyse and evaluate a wide range of musical works.
The music curriculum will provide children with meaningful and quality learning experiences through a well sequenced and cohesive curriculum built on prior learning to improve children’s self-confidence.
Children will be equipped with the skills and knowledge to become autonomous and expressive learners and experiment, invent and perform their own musical expressions. Enrichment opportunities are provided throughout and beyond our music curriculum for all pupils. This includes the school choir, instrument tuition and opportunities to experience live music performance.
We use the National Curriculum to plan our Music curriculum.
What your child will learn
- Perform confidently, showing an awareness of audience, place and occasion.
- Critically evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions, including the works of the great composers and musicians.
- Sing and use their voices with confidence and expression.
- Play a range of classroom percussion instruments, both tuned and untuned, with fluency and control
- Use music technology to capture and manipulate sounds
- Create and compose music on their own and with others for a range of purposes, understanding how the interrelated dimensions can be used for intended effects.
- Have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument and progress to the next level of musical excellence.
- Understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated.
- Use and understand musical notation.