Music
At Corporation Road Community Primary School, our music curriculum aims to provide children with an appreciation for music as a method of expression. We believe that music is a powerful form of communication that can inspire and motivate children. It can increase self-confidence, creativity, and imagination as well as providing opportunities for self-expression and teamwork. In doing so, we hope to instil a life-long love and appreciation of music, across different styles and genres that reflects the world that we live in.
Intent
- To allow all children to have the experience of learning how to play an instrument.
- To explore different ways of using their voices to create sound and song.
- To ensure all children access high quality music that reflects different genres, time periods and cultures.
- To develop their self-confidence, creativity and imagination by providing opportunities for self-expression.
- To build upon what they have learnt about working as a team and being a part of a community.
- To understand musical concepts through a repetition-based approach to learning. For children to understand basic notation and musical vocabulary to help them perform within an ensemble
National Curriculum
Key stage 1
Pupils should be taught to:
- use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes
- play tuned and untuned instruments musically
- listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music
- experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music.
Key stage 2
Pupils should be taught to:
- play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression
- improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music
- listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory
- use and understand staff and other musical notations
- appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians
- develop an understanding of the history of music
