Music
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 |