INTENT:
At All Saints Primary we make Music an enjoyable learning experience. We encourage children to participate in a variety of musical experiences through which we aim to build the confidence of all children. Within Music our school vision, ‘Nurturing hearts, inspiring minds’ is developed through Singing which lies at the heart of good music teaching our teaching focuses on developing the children’s ability to sing in tune and with other people. Where possible teachers use singing throughout the curriculum to embed learning. Through singing songs, children learn about the structure and organisation of music. We teach them to listen and to appreciate different forms of music. As children get older, we expect them to maintain their concentration for longer and to listen to more extended pieces of music. Through the school vision we also provide opportunities for all children to play a variety of instruments and use them creatively both individually and in groups.
IMPLEMENTATION:
At All Saints we will take a holistic approach, in which individual five strands below are woven together to creat engaging and enriching experiences:
- Performing
- Listening
- Composing
- The history of music
- The inter-related dimensions of music
Each unit combines these strands within a cross- curricular topic designed to capture pupils’ imagination and encourage them to explore music enthusicatically. Over the lessons, children will be taught how to sing fluenctly and expressively, and play tuned and untuned instruments accurately and with control. They will learn to recognise and name the interrelated dimensions of music- pitch, duration, tempo, timbre, structure, texture and dynamics- and use these expressively in their own improvisations and compositions.
The scheme is a spiral curriculum, with essential knowledge and skills revisited with increasing complexity, allowing pupils to revise and build on their previous learning. Children progress in terms of tackling more complex tasks and doing more simple tasks better, as well as developing understanding and knowledge of the history of music, staff, and other musical notations, as well as the interrelated dimensions of music and more.
Within Key Stage 2 we access the Musicianship Programme delivered by Dorset Music Service to ensure that every KS2 child has the chance to begin learning a musical instrument and the skills needed to become a musician
IMPACT:
The impact and measure of this is to ensure that children at All Saints Primary are equipped with a love of music and the skills and knowledge that will enable them to be ready for the curriculum at Key Stage 3 and for life as an adult in the wider world.
We want the children to have thoroughly enjoyed learning about and participating in music, therefore encouraging them to undertake new life experiences now and in the future.
The expected impact of the scheme of work is that the children will:
- Be confident performers, composers and listeners and will be able to express themselves musically at and beyond school.
- Show an appreciation and respect fo a wide range of musical styles from around the world and will understand how music is influenced by the wider cultural, social and historical contexts in which it is developed.
- Understand the ways in which music can be written down to support performing and composing activities
- Demonstrate and articulate an enthusiasm for music and be able to identify their own personal musical preferences.
- Meet the end of key stage expectations outlined in the national curriculum for music.
Pupils are assessed against national curriculum objective every half term. This is monitored by the subject leader, the senior leadership and the School Development Group.
BRITISH VALUES
(to be developed in all lessons)
The core British Values are:
- Democracy
- Rule of Law
- Mutual Respect
- Individual Liberty
- Tolerance
At All Saints in our music curriculum, children learn from a very young age about the need to establish a clear set of rules when listening, performing and composing: working together as a team, taking turns with the instruments, listening when someone is playing and deciding on whose ideas are going to be used in a composition.
Children are encouraged to make choices about the music they like to listen to or choose to perform and are respected for their individual preferences.
Children are encouraged to appreciate the fact that music from all cultures and traditions around the world develops and contributes positively to British music. Children are taught songs that reflect our strong British heritage and our Christian ethos.
SMSC
(to be developed in all lessons)
SPIRITUAL: Explore beliefs and experience; respect faiths, feelings and values; enjoy learning about oneself, others and the surrounding world; use imagination and creativity; reflect. Music helps to promote spiritualism in that music can be a major part of many spiritual celebrations including in that of major religions as well as in meditative and well-being practises (our stormbreaks may include some of these). Music can also promote a sense of wonder of the world.
