Music Curriculum Overview

In Music the children are given the opportunity to compose and perform and also to listen to, and appraise, music from different cultures, times and composers.

Purpose of study

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.

Aims

The national curriculum for music 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 are regularly asked to sing at Church events and children are given opportunities to listen to live music and take part in performances in front of a wider audience.

Spirituality in Music 

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(Looking out)

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  • Opportunities to listen and appraise music throughout the school day and through the curriculum
  • Children encouraged to respond to how a piece of music makes them feel
  • Children are encouraged to respond to changes in tone, rhythm, pitch and what message a piece of music is conveying
  • Children are encouraged to reflect on how a piece of music is making them feel
  • Children are encouraged to reflect on the messages heard through a piece of music
  • Appreciating the beauty of hearing, feeling and seeing ‘awe and wonder all around them’

Mirrors

(Reflecting on thoughts and feelings)

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  • Our curriculum is designed to evoke discussions of a wide range of musicians, their life experiences and how they might be reflected in the songs and pieces of music they write.
  • Children are given the opportunity to explore music from different cultures and how does it make them feel.
  • Children can explore song lyrics and interpret their meaning.

Door

(Stepping out into the world and take action)

  • Within our school life children have the opportunity to perform and continue their musical journey outside of the classroom.
  • Through the WICETS programme introduced in lower key stage 2 all children are given the opportunity to learn a tuned, stringed instrument and in key stage 1 to learn a woodwind instrument
  • Children are encouraged and given the opportunity to perform for members of the community to evoke feelings and responses
  • Active school choir who explores various genres and cultures through song
  • Singing through worship and in class is linked to half termly values and events or current issues taking place in the wider world