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Music
Intent
Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity. Our diverse music curriculum exposes children to music from a range of genres, countries, cultures and religions, tied to significant periods and events in history. We build cultural capital by learning about great musicians and composers from a variety of backgrounds and learning about the role that music plays in different cultural and religious festivals and celebrations all over the world.
Our children’s musical journey begins in EYFS where they are introduced to music through song and rhyme and are introduced to percussion instruments. They are encouraged to be imaginative and expressive.
Our children will receive a high quality music education which engages and inspires them to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians, and so increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement. As pupils progress, they should develop a critical engagement with music, allowing them to compose, and to listen with discrimination. They will be encouraged to express and share their opinions and feelings about music.
Our children will be taught music in a way that ensures progression of skills and follows a sequence to build on previous learning. Every child regardless of ability, gender or background can enjoy and thrive in their music education. Every child in Key Stage 2 is taught to play a musical instrument and to read music, setting many children off on the path to becoming talented musicians.
They will gain experience and skills of the wide range of dimensions of music in a way that will enhance their learning opportunities, enabling them to use music in a wide variety of contexts.
Implementation
At Bentley High Street we follow a broad and balanced music curriculum that builds on previous learning and provides both support and challenge for learners. We follow a music scheme from Kapow Primary that ensures progression of skills and covers all aspects of the music curriculum. Music is taught in blocks throughout each topic within the year to allow children to focus on the content in more depth and build on their skills.
Curriculum Implementation - Subject Content and Organisation Across School
EYFS
- To know a range of songs - jigsaw, Harvest songs, number songs - 5 little monkeys swinging from a tree, 5 currant buns, 1,2,3,4,5 once I caught a fish a life, 10 green bottles, 10 in a bed.
- To know the ‘welcome everybody’ dance (Autumn Harvest)
- To know the sounds of percussion instruments—tambourine, triangle, maracas and words to describe their sound.
Year 1
- Pulse & Rhythm: All About Me
- Classical music, dynamics & tempo: Animals
- Musical Vocabulary: Under the Sea
- Timbre & rhythmic pattern: Fairy Tales
- Pitch & tempo: Superheroes
- Vocal and body sounds: By the sea
Year 2
- African call and response song: Animals
- Orchestral instruments: Traditional Stories
- Musical Me
- Dynamics, timbre, tempo & motifs: Space
- On This Island: British sounds & sounds
- Myths and Legends
Year 3
- Ballads
- Creating compositions in response to an animation: Mountains
- Developing singing techniques & keeping in time: The Vikings
- Pentatonic melodies & composition: Chinese New Year
- Jazz
- Traditional instruments & improvisation: Around the World: India
Year 4
- Wider opportunities music lessons provided weekly by Doncaster Music Service
Year 5
- Rock and Roll
- Changes in pitch, dynamics and tempo: Rivers
- Body and tuned percussion: Rainforests
- Samba & carnival sounds & instruments: South America
- Haiku, music & performance: Hanami
- Adapting and transposing motifs: Romans
Year 6
- Blues
- South and West Africa
- Songs of WWII
- Composition to represent the festival of colour: Holi
- Film Music
- Composing and performing a leavers’ song
Impact
Our children enjoy and value music and know why they are doing things, not just how. Children will understand and appreciate the value of music in the context of their personal wellbeing and the creative and cultural industries and their many career opportunities.
Progress in music is demonstrated through regularly reviewing and scrutinising children’s work, in accordance with our music assessment policy to ensure that progression of skills is taking place. Namely through;
- looking at pupils’ work, especially over time as they gain skills and knowledge;
- observing how they perform in lessons;
- talking to them about what they know.
The music curriculum will contribute to children’s personal development in creativity, independence, judgement and self-reflection. This would be seen in them being able to talk confidently about their work, and sharing their work with others.
Progress will be shown through outcomes and through the process leading to them.
Music Subject on a Page
Subject on a Page 2021
Website Links
The Point Music Hub at home:
https://thepoint.org.uk/resources-doncaster-music-education-hub/
Classics for Kids:
https://www.classicsforkids.com/
BBC Bitesize Music KS2:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zwxhfg8
BBC Bitesize Music KS1:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z7tnvcw
BBC Bring the Noise:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/bring-the-noise
BBC Ten Pieces- get creative with classical music:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ten-pieces/ten-pieces-at-home/zjy3382
Ukulele Rocks- teach yourself to play!
http://www.ukulelerocks.co.uk/
For further information on our Music curriculum, please contact our Music lead Miss Round.