Music: Led by Miss Frame 

The Nature of Music

Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity. For many children, the music they love will be part of the narrative of their lives and bring colour to the experiences that shape them. Learning about music is a vital part of a broad and rounded education. Taught well music gives children the opportunity to make music, think more musically and crucially, become even more musical.

Curriculum Intent

Our high-quality music curriculum is designed to engage and inspire children to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians. The curriculum is designed to ignite all areas of child development and skills for school readiness, including intellectual, social, emotional, motor skills, language, and overall literacy. Through music and movement children learn new words and concepts by chanting rhymes, creating sounds, using household items, and singing songs to learn the alphabet. Music also helps children to learn how to express emotions in different ways, it can raise someone’s mood, get them excited or make them calm and relaxed. Through music children learn the reasons for creating music, such as for celebrations, recreation, and artist expression.

Curriculum Implementation

• Develop children’s understanding of music through high quality teaching and carefully thought-out sequences of lessons.
• provide a range of practical activities for the children to incorporate listening, appraising, composing, and performing.
• provide opportunities for the children to experience the eight key elements of music – pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure, and appropriate music notation.
• provide opportunities for the children to listen to a wide range of music, live and recorded including music from other cultures and different styles or types of music.
• provide opportunities for the children to play and learn a musical instrument.
• allowing children to be creative and give them the freedom to explore a range of tuned and untuned instruments.
• provide the children opportunities to speaking chants, rhymes and singing expressively.
• allow children, the opportunity to rehearse and perform their songs to an audience.
• provide opportunities for children to record their own compositions using appropriate technology.

Please click the links below to access the following documents for Music:
Policy
Long Term Plan
Knowledge and Skills Progression