Curriculum
Music
Intent
Music plays a key role as part of our curriculum. Children experience a breadth and range of cultural opportunities through Music and have the potential to unlock creativity, talents, depths and excellence as well as promote a joy in learning. Music supports the wellbeing of our children as well as the potential to value and recognise the uniqueness of each individual, nurture and support all abilities and equip children with the resilience and perseverance to be creative and independent thinkers as well as lifelong learners.
Implementation
As an Artsmark Silver school, we promote a positive attitude to Music learning for all of our children both within their classrooms, communal areas and local community. Expectations are that all children are capable of achieving high standards in all aspects of the subject. Our whole school approach to the teaching and learning of the Music takes the following format:
- Music is taught by class teachers within their year group.
- We follow Charanga for our music curriculum, ensuring coverage of the National Curriculum and appropriate progression of skills. Please see the Charanga documents below to support this.
- Through Charanga, children experience a range of music styles, singing for different purposes; play a range of instruments individually or as a group/class as well as developing musical composition and structures.
- Planning involves engaging lessons, often involving high-quality visual/auditory resources to aid understanding and broaden children’s experiences.
- Planning builds upon the learning and skill development of the previous years.
- Teachers find opportunities to develop children’s understanding further by accessing organisations that work with experts from the wider community who can come into school to work with the children.
- Children are offered a wide range of extra-curricular activities, visits, trips and visitors to complement and broaden the curriculum. These are purposeful and link with the knowledge being taught in class.
Musician of the Month
In addition to our music lessons, we follow Manic Street Teachers ‘Musician of the Month’. This initiative is designed for primary schools to foster a culture of musical appreciation by focusing on a new artist or composer each month. Please see the coverage and rationale document for more information.
Musician of the Month Coverage and Rationale