Music
Intent
At Maynards Green we believe that all children should have access to an engaging music curriculum that sparks curiosity and fascination.
We seek:
- To engage, motivate and inspire pupils to develop a love of music that extends beyond their time at school.
- To develop the self-confidence, skills, knowledge, and understanding to develop a lifelong love of music, whilst also providing a secure foundation that enables them to take music further should they wish to.
- To listen to and appreciate a wide variety of musical styles, genres, from a wide variety of traditions, cultures and time periods
- To begin to appraise a piece of music and make judgements about the quality of music using the appropriate musical vocabulary
- To learn how music can represent feelings and emotions.
- To sing in tune, on their own, and with other people
- To compose and perform music as part of a group
Implementation
Our planning follows the Sing- up scheme of work to ensure children in both key stages have access to an inspiring and robust music curriculum. Sing Up aims for every child to have access to high-quality, practical, and engaging musical experiences .
We will achieve this through:
- Incorporating and embedding the knowledge and skills set out in the Music National Curriculum 2014 : to perform, listen to, review and evaluate music, to be taught to sing, create and compose music and to understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated
- Using the Sing up scheme to plan music lessons, which ensures consistency and a clear sequence for progression and utilising Charanga electronic resources for delivering lessons
- Implementing an integrated, practical, exploratory and child-led approach to musical learning
- Developing musical skills as the learning progresses through listening and appraising, composing, exploring and performing.
- Using Sing Up’s pupil assessment tools to self-assess and peer-assess their musical knowledge and understanding
- Using a range of tuned and untuned percussion
- Giving all pupils opportunities to take part in performances to the school or a wider audience and to see live performances by professional musicians.
- Providing opportunities for children to learn to play a variety of instruments such as ukulele, drums, woodwind, violin and keyboard through East Sussex Music School and Red Butler peripatetic teachers.
Impact
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Pupil’s wellbeing, listening and concentration are developed and improved
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By the end of KS1, pupils should be able to sing expressively, play tuned and untuned percussion instruments, concentrate whilst listening to music and create original music.
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By the end of KS2, pupils should be able to play and perform individually and as part of a group, improvise and compose music, use and understand a variety of musical notations, listen and appreciate a range of music and develop an understanding of the history of music.
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Musicians, singers and performers in school inspire pupil’s own musical activities.
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Children engage in a variety of performances and extracurricular activities