Shooters Grove Primary School
At Shooters Grove, it is our intent that we make music an enjoyable, integral, creative and inclusive learning experience. Children will gain a firm understanding of what music is through listening, singing, playing, evaluating, analysing and composing a wide variety of historical periods, styles, traditions and musical genres. We believe all children should be able to reflect through music, allowing them to express and develop their own appreciation of this throughout a wide variety of opportunities within school. We strive for a high quality music curriculum which should inspire pupils, develop confidence and creativity as well as understanding the value and importance of music within the wider community. At Shooters Grove, we use the Kapow scheme of work, which offers a topic-based approach to support children’s learning. This is used from Reception to Year 6. A steady progressive plan has been built into this scheme, ensuring consistency from one year group to the next. This ensures a wide exposure to different genres of music, with a high proportion of practical opportunities to explore and develop as musicians and singers.
Aims of the National Curriculum:
The National Curriculum for music aims to ensure that all pupils:
· Perform, listen, review and evaluate music across a range of historical period, genres, styles and traditions, including the work of 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 excellent.
· Understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated including through the interrelated dimensions: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations.
Early Years and Key Stage One
At Shooter’s Grove we believe that the development of children’s artistic and cultural awareness supports their imagination and creativity. We understand and recognise the importance of providing regular opportunities to engage and explore with arts, design and music. The quality and variety of what children see, hear and participate in is crucial to their understanding, self-expression, development of vocabulary and ability to communicate through expressive arts. The frequency, repetition and depth of their experiences are fundamental to their progress in all areas of the musical curriculum.
Pupils are taught:
- Use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes.
- Play tuned and un-tuned 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 interrelated dimensions of music.
Key stage 2
Pupils are taught to sing and play music with increasing confidence and control. They should develop an understanding of musical composition, organising and manipulating ideas within musical structures and reproducing sounds from memory.
We encourage pupils to;
- 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 interrelated dimensions of music.
- Use and understand staff and other musical notations.
- Appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different tradition and from great composers and musicians.
- Develop an understanding of the history of music.
The scheme we follow has been developed on the belief that music enriches individual lives as well as the school's wider community. Children will:
- Aspire to be the best creative individual they can be.
-Believe in their capabilities to appreciate a wide variety of culturally diverse music and use taught skills to creatively produce their own pieces.
-Contribute to their local and wider communities using music as a tool to unite all backgrounds, abilities and cultures
Please click here to access the subject policy for music.
