Music
Subject Coordinator- Miss Conway
Intent
The National Curriculum for music aims to ensure that all pupils:
• Perform, listen to, review and evaluate music
• Be taught to sing, create and compose music
• Understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated.
At Eastrington Primary School, we aim to provide our children with a high quality music education which broadens their minds, thereby enabling pupils to develop a love of music and singing whilst supporting self- confidence, creativity and a sense of achievement.
Children will gain a deeper understanding of what music is by listening, singing, composing, playing and evaluating across a wide variety of historical styles, periods, traditions and musical genres. They will gin an insight into the history of music over time within cultures and time periods, making links with other areas of study across the curriculum and developing an understanding of cultural preferences for communities. With a wide experience of different music, they will be enabled to develop their independent tastes for different musical genre, becoming self- assured in their unique preferences.
Implementation
The music curriculum ensures children sing, listen, play, perform and evaluate. This is embedded in the classroom activities as well as singing assemblies, various concerts and performances and the learning of instruments.
Through the musical program Charanga, teachers are able to produce inclusive lessons for all children to access the musical curriculum in a fun and engaging way, further promoting a love of learning. Teachers deliver music following the Charanga programme, designed specifically for the teaching of music in primary schools. Charanga lessons are planned in sequences to provide children with the opportunities to review, remember, deepen and apply their understanding.
The elements of music are taught in the classroom lessons so that children are able to use some of the language of music to dissect it, and understand how it is made, played, appreciated and analysed. In the classroom children learn key aspects of music through cross-curricular links. They also learn how to compose, focusing on different dimensions of music, which in turn feeds their understanding when listening, playing, or analysing music. Composing or performing using body percussion and vocal sounds is also part of the curriculum, which develops the understanding of musical elements without the added complexity of an instrument.
Impact
Whilst at Eastrington Primary School, children have access to a varied programme, which allows them to discover areas of strength, as well as areas they might like to improve upon. The integral nature of music and the learner creates an enormously rich palette from which a child may access fundamental abilities such as: achievement, self-confidence, interaction with and awareness of others, and self-reflection.
Music will also develop an understanding of culture and history, both in relation to children individually, as well as ethnicities from across the world. Children are able to enjoy music in as many ways as they choose – either as listener, creator or performer. They can dissect music and comprehend its parts. They can sing and feel a pulse. They also have an understanding of how to further develop skills less known to them, should they ever develop an interest in their lives.
