What is Music?
Music is a creative art form; a universal language to express emotions through a collection of coordinated sounds.
Through the eyes of our children, Music is important because:
‘It helps us to develop our confidence by allowing us to express our feelings through sounds. Music gives us freedom with no limits.’
Early Learning Goals
Children are given the opportunities through:
Expressive arts and design: Exploring and using media and materials:
Being imaginative:
National Curriculum
Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity. A high-quality music education should engage and inspire pupils to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians, and so increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement. As pupils progress, they should develop a critical engagement with music, allowing them to compose, and to listen with discrimination to the best in the musical canon.
Intent
At St. Andrew’s Church of England Primary School, we aim for music to be an enjoyable learning experience where our children participate in a variety of musical experiences to build confidence. Through singing songs, children learn about the structure and organisation of music. We teach them to listen and to appreciate different forms of music. Children develop descriptive language skills in music lessons when learning about how music can represent different feelings, emotions and narratives. We also teach technical vocabulary such as volume, pitch, beat and rhythm and encourage children to discuss music using these terms.
The national curriculum for music aims to ensure that all pupils:
Implementation:
The teaching and implementation of the Music curriculum at St. Andrew’s C.E. Primary School is based on the Early Learning Goals and National Curriculum and supported by expectations from Chris Quigley Milestones, ensuring a well-structured approach.
Our pupils should be able to organise their knowledge, skills and understanding on the following key concepts:
These key concepts underpin learning in each milestone. This enables pupils to reinforce and build upon prior learning, make connections and develop subject specific language.
The Charanga/Sing Up scheme of work is used from Year 1 - 6 to ensure a wide exposure to different genres of music, with lots of practical opportunities to explore and develop as musicians and singers.
Our Music curriculum is taught over two terms each year and the curriculum is designed to develop knowledge and skills that are progressive as well as transferable. We aim to ensure that, when appropriate, Music is integrated into other areas of the curriculum and the basic skills are taught throughout the year through cross curricular work.
The school also works alongside the Lincolnshire Music Service to provide specific instrumental lessons for children from Year 2 to Year 6 who wish to learn an instrument. A variety of opportunities are offered where children perform in whole school collective worship and also to parents and the wider community.
Additional opportunities are offered in music, such as the school choir and orchestra which perform regularly in school and at events in the local community.
Impact
Through the explicit teaching of the Music skills, teachers and the children assess their learning continuously throughout the lesson. At the end of each unit, teachers complete unit evaluations, assessing attainment against the Chris Quigley Essentials milestones to make informed judgements about the depth of their learning and the progress children have made over time.
Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity. A high-quality music education should engage and inspire pupils to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians, and so increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement. As pupils progress, they should develop a critical engagement with music, allowing them to compose, and to listen with discrimination to the best in the musical canon.
The national curriculum for music aims to ensure that all pupils:
Peripatetic teachers visit the school to teach a wide variety of instruments.
Key Stage 1
Pupils should be taught to:
Key Stage 2
Pupils should be taught to sing and play musically with increasing confidence and control. They should develop an understanding of musical composition, organising and manipulating ideas within musical structures and reproducing sounds from aural memory.
Pupils should be taught to: