Music
Please be aware that we are in the process of updating the curriculum pages to reflect the content of the WMAT curriculum and so there may be 'gaps' in the published information at this time.
Curriculum Intent for Music
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.
Through our music curriculum, we aim to ensure that pupils:
Implementation
The learner as a musician in KS1 is taught to…
The learner as a musician in KS2 is taught to…
Our pupils should be able to organise their knowledge, skills and understanding around the following learning approaches
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.
Through our music curriculum, we aim to ensure that 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 to support their learning in and about music
- understand how music is created, produced and communicated through a study and exploration of pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations.
Implementation
The learner as a musician in KS1 is taught to…
- use their voice expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes
- play tuned and untuned instruments musically
- listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music
- experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music.
The learner as a musician in KS2 is taught to…
- to sing and play musically with increasing confidence and control
- develop an understanding of musical composition, organising and manipulating ideas within musical structures and reproducing sounds from aural memory.
- play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression
- improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music
- listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory
- use and understand musical notations
- appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians
- develop an understanding of the history of music.
Our pupils should be able to organise their knowledge, skills and understanding around the following learning approaches
- To perform
- To compose
- To transcribe
- To describe music
All children at Sibford Gower receive regular music lessons from teachers with previous musical backgrounds and a passion for the subject. Music from EYFS to Upper KS2 seeks to take a cross-curricular approach, often tying in with class topics or a theme appropriate to the current time of year. The children are taught, in an age and stage appropriate way, to appraise and perform music from a wide range of cultural traditions and historical periods, to sing and use their voices, to create and compose music using a wide range of tuned and un-tuned instruments, to record their compositions using a variety of notation and to understand the inter-related dimensions of music. We are also very fortunate to have several peripatetic music teachers with whom the children have the opportunity to learn a variety of instruments including clarinet, saxophone, flute and voice coaching.
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| ks1music_planning_sheet_year_b.docx |
| sgeps_musicskillsprogression.pdf |