Curriculum Intent and Implementation

Music

The national curriculum for music aims to ensure that all pupils:

• develop the creative, technical and practical expertise needed to perform everyday tasks confidently and to participate successfully in an increasingly technological world
• build and apply a repertoire of knowledge, understanding and skills in order to design and make high-quality prototypes and products for a wide range of users
• critique, evaluate and test their ideas and products and the work of others
• understand and apply the principles of nutrition and learn how to cook

Music is taught discreetly at Welland Primary school and used as a cross curricular vehicle for learning across the wider curriculum. As a school, we are subscribers to Sing Up and this forms the basis for quality lessons that are delivered across every year group. In Key Stage Two, the children also get at least a term of specialist whole class instrument tuition from the Severn Arts foundation.

The children develop a rapidly widening repertoire which they use to create original, imaginative, fluent and distinctive composing and performance work. The children establish a musical understanding underpinned by high levels of aural perception, internalisation and knowledge of music, including high or rapidly developing levels of technical expertise. The teachers teach a very good awareness and appreciation of different musical traditions and genres. We foster an excellent understanding of how musical provenance - the historical, social and cultural origins of music - contributes to the diversity of musical styles. Staff teach and model the ability to give precise written and verbal explanations, using musical terminology effectively, accurately and appropriately. Staff and children have a passion for and commitment to a diverse range of musical activities.

Our Threshold Concepts for music are:

- Perform: This concept involves understanding that music is created to be performed.

- Compose: This concept involves appreciating that music is created through a process which has a number of techniques.

- Transcribe: This concept involves understanding that compositions need to be understood by others and that there are techniques and a language for communicating them.

- Describe music: This concept involves appreciating the features and effectiveness of musical elements.

Music in our classrooms

You will see:

● Children engaged and excited by music

● Children using a range of different instruments and arrangements

● Children enjoying singing and learning songs.

● Children working collaboratively

● Children using their growing skill to realise increasingly original and imaginative pieces of music

You will hear:

● Children evaluating music and developing their understanding of how it is created

● Children excited and enthusiastic about music

● Children talking about music using key vocabulary

● Children performing both original and established music

You will feel:

● A classroom climate where mistakes are valued and part of the deepening our understanding

● Children building their understanding of music

● That children are passionate about music in all its forms

In Reception, year 1 and year 2 the children are taught in single age classes and we follow the 1 - year cycle plan. In Key stage 2 we follow the two year plan as we have mixed age classes.