Music
Please click here to see the DfE summary of the action plan in terms of 'what happened in music last year'.
Intent
At Christ Church C of E Primary School, we believe that high quality Music Education will engage and inspire our pupils to develop their love of music by exposing them to diverse musical experiences and igniting a passion for music. It is our intent that our pupils will become reflective and talented musicians through:
- performing, listening to and reviewing a wide range of music
- learning to sing and use their voices
- being given the opportunity to learn a musical instrument
- introducing them to the possibilities created by Music Technology
- developing an understanding of the terminology used within all music, which are referred to as the Inter-related dimensions of music: pitch, timbre
Implementation
Our music curriculum follows the Charanga Musical School scheme. This music curriculum ensures that our pupils can create, their own music, sing, listen, play and perform. This is further embedded into daily classroom activities, weekly music lessons, weekly singing assemblies with performances in church, regular concerts and performances and the learning of instruments including brass instruments and glockenspiels.
Our pupils are given opportunities to access a wide range of musical genres and develop confidence about talking and evaluating this music, recognising that different music appeals to different people. Children are given the opportunity to learn a musical instrument eg. glockenspiels and untuned percussion instruments in addition to opportunities to learn a brass instrument from year three upwards. With opportunities to perform, our pupils develop confidence as musicians.
The Charanga Musical School Scheme provides teachers with week-by-week lesson support for each year group in the school. It is ideal for specialist and non-specialist teachers and provides lesson plans, assessment, clear progression, and engaging and exciting whiteboard resources to support every lesson. The Scheme supports all the requirements of the national curriculum. The interrelated dimensions of music weave through the units to encourage the development of musical skills as the learning progresses through listening and appraising, differing musical activities (including creating and exploring) and performing.
Impact
At Christ Church C of E Primary School, our aim is that by the time they leave school, our pupils will :
- know more, remember more and understand more about music
- have a very good awareness and appreciation of different musical traditions and genres
- have achieved age related expectations in music
- have an opportunity to foster their musical skills.
This will be evidenced through recording evidence on Seesaw and completing Charanga on-line assessments at the end of lessons and units.
