Intent (What we want to do)

At Wath C of E our aim is to provide our children the opportunities to sing, play and perform, listen and compose, improvise and experiment and create their own work in music. We aim to develop a child’s musicianship so they may grow into confident, creative performers and discerning, critical listeners. Skills and knowledge are taught progressively to ensure that all children are able to learn and practice in order to develop and express their musicality as they move through our school. We build on previous learning and skills so that overtime, clear progression can be seen and we aim to ensure that all children are given high quality experiences, including those who may not have these opportunities outside of school. We aim for our pupils to develop a love of music, which we hope will improve self-confidence, creativity, sense of achievement and encourage future aspirations. We have developed an ambitious knowledge rich curriculum for music at Wath C of E that meets the needs of all our learners, is inclusive and provides for the highest expectations of progress and attainment

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The National curriculum for music aims to ensure that all pupils:

• perform, listen to, review and evaluate music from across a range of historical periods, genres and styles and traditions, including the works of the great composers and musicians.

• Be taught to sing, create and compose music

• Understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated

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Summary

• A music curriculum that is sequenced over time so that children can establish a growing basis of knowledge, skills and understanding

• Children will have the ability to appreciate and evaluate music from different genres, traditions and periods in history

• Each child will show expected progress within a broad and balanced range of musical activities by playing, composing, improvising and performing which will be focused using a half termly piece of music

• To show a development of ideas and their skills through the use of a class journal in Y1 to Y6.

• Ensure that all children have access to the music curriculum through quality first, inclusive teaching and minimise where possible any barriers to pupil’s participation in all music learning.

 

 

Implementation (How we will do it)

The music curriculum ensures that children sing, listen, play, perform and evaluate. This is embedded through music lessons and activities in the classroom as well as regular singing assemblies. Children in Year 2 have the opportunity to learn the recorder. Children in Y5 learn to play Boomwhackers and children in Y6 learn to play the Ukulele. All children will have the opportunity to play the glockenspiel. This will allow them the opportunity to learn to play a tuned instrument and develop confidence and accuracy when reading notation, starting with simple graphic notation and progressing onto staff notation and chords. Children are then able to perform at the end of the school year to the whole school, including parents.

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Children in upper key stage 2 have the opportunity to participate in the Young Voices Concert at the Sheffield Utilita Arena which entails weekly lessons within their music session to learn a repertoire of songs which include singing in unison/rounds/canons/parts/different languages as well as movement/signing along with some songs. These songs are chosen from a range of different genres/styles and traditions. The experience of this concert gives children a wider knowledge of music and performing as well as being part of a mass choir and listening to live music in a professional venue.

 

Early Years

In Early Years we provide continuous provision opportunities for music, these activities make an important contribution to the EYFS development areas such as Expressive Art and Design and Communication and Language. Children in FS1/FS2 will have access to opportunities, resources, interactions and communications with adults to explore and develop their music skills in line with the prime areas of Communication and Language and the specific area of Expressive Arts and Design.

Key Stage One / Key Stage Two

Here at Wath C of E Primary School, music is taught following the Charanga music programme where children will develop their understanding, make musical judgements, apply their new learning, develop their aural memory, express themselves physically emotionally and through discussion and create their own musical ideas. Children will not only learn about music but become musicians who are able to share and perform using their new skills. ​

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Each Unit of Work comprises the of strands of musical learning which correspond with the national curriculum for music: 

1. Listening and Appraising 

2. Musical Activities:

1.       Warm-up Games 

2.       Optional Flexible Games 

3.       Singing 

4.       Playing instruments 

5.       Improvisation 

6.       Composition 

3. Performing 

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Charanga Musical School Units of Work enable children to understand musical concepts through a repetition-based approach to learning. Learning about the same musical concept through different musical activities enables a more secure, deeper learning and mastery of musical skills.

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The Music curriculum is built around essential knowledge, understanding and key skills broken into year groups to show continuity and progress. Children produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences throughout. Over time children will become more proficient in singing, playing, composing, improvising and performing as well as listening and appraising other musical genres.

 

Summary

•          Music is broken down into EYFS and year groups/ key stages to show continuity and progression through the years

•          Children have access to weekly lessons which builds each session on skills and knowledge developed in each lesson

•         Within lessons children have time to practice and develop their individual musical skills.

•         At the end of the unit of work children can perform and demonstrate their creativity skills with increasing accuracy and confidence

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Differentiation for vulnerable groups (SEND, Pupil Premium, etc.)

​Quality first teaching in music includes reasonable adjustments and adaptations to ensure all children can access learning alongside their peers through support from teaching staff and additional time where needed, with support to use resources and materials, also to ensure learning is differentiated to suit each individual.

 

Impact (What impact will it have?)

The children’s learning over time, reflects the intended curriculum. Research shows that repetition of course content leads to sticky learning; the transfer of knowledge from the short term to long term memory. At Wath C of E, we achieve this through regular retrieval practise of techniques and knowledge learnt. Children can speak with confidence about what they have learnt and how they can apply this to other parts of their learning.

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By the end of each key stage, pupils are expected to know, apply and understand the matters, skills and processes specified in the relevant programme of study, with regular assessment points for data and to make sure each child is making expected progress.

The intended impact of music at Wath C of E is that, by the time children leave us that we will have instilled a love of music with the ability and knowledge to play multiple musical instruments, sing with increasing control and accuracy, the ability to create, compose and improvise and appreciate and appraise music from different genres/styles and traditions as well as understanding cultures and different periods of musical history.

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The impact of our curriculum will be seen not only in measurable attainment and progress but that Wath C of E Primary School creates polite, well-mannered caring members of our school community who understand and respect everybody’s differences and needs.

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Summary

• To gain skills, concepts and knowledge necessary to create musical works and experiences.

• Experiment with musical ideas using the interrelated dimensions of music.

• Appraise, evaluate, analyse and encourage self-reflection of their own work and the process.

• Throughout self-reflection the children are taught how to be resilient to achieve their goals.

• Learn about different composers, artists, genres/styles and traditions while understanding historical and cultural development of music.

• Pupils with SEND make good progress in music. When expected progress is not made, plans are put in place to address this and allow for accelerated progress through additional provision in class, external agency support and family discussions.