Intent:

We have designed our Music curriculum so that our learners:

• Develop their musicality, so pupils appreciate and develop a life-long love of music.
• Become confident performers, composers and listeners.
• Experience a range of genres of music from around the world and across generations. This also gives our pupils opportunity to explore the British and other cultures.
• Develop their musical skills through singing, playing tuned and untuned instruments, composing music and responding to the music they hear.
• Develop an interest in a wider range of music outside, expanding their usual musical knowledge and preferences outside of school and being eager to share this with the school community.
• Develop excitement and enthusiasm to develop as musicality and performance skills. We hope children will access extracurricular music opportunities which our school provides links to e.g. Alford Silver Band.
• Develop transferrable skills which enrich their learning and benefit them in the wider world e.g. teamwork, leadership, creative thinking, decision-making and performance skills.

Implementation:

Our Music curriculum is taught:

• Progressively so that it begins in the Early Years, where the children’s musical awareness is developed to support their imagination and creativity. This early love of music is then developed throughout the school where children are encouraged to further develop their musicality through performing as well as in music lessons.
• So that the individual strands of music are interwoven in lessons to create engaging, exciting learning that progressively develops pupils’ musicality through each year group and key stage. Music lessons are structured so pupils access the key skills outlined in the Model Music Curriculum: singing, listening, composing, and performing.
• So pupils explore the history of music and the interrelated dimensions of music (rhythm, melody, harmony, dynamics, texture, timbre and structure).
• Pupils' knowledge is built upon each year, and they are taught how to sing fluently and expressively, play tuned and untuned instruments with accuracy and control. They will learn to recognise and name the interrelated dimensions of music and use these in their own composition and improvisations expressively.
• Using Kapow Primary’s Music scheme of work. This ensures that prior skills and knowledge are revisited and built upon. As pupil progress develops, they will be able to undertake more complex tasks and engage with simple tasks with more ease and precision. Pupils’ understanding of the history of music, composition skills and interrelated dimensions of music continually develop alongside this.
• So that pupils develop their musical skills and their understanding of how music works through a range of musical activities that explore a diversity of musical cultures and traditions. Pupils take part in weekly singing assemblies where they can hone their performance skills. They celebrate diversity by learning new songs from other cultures as well as learning new key vocabulary.
• So pupils have opportunity to perform to other classes as part of their class assemblies, developing their singing, rehearsing and performance skills.
• So that music is used across the curriculum to enrich other subjects and support long term memory of key facts such as times table songs/rhymes or historical facts.
• So pupils who want to learn to play a musical instrument can learn through the direction of specialised music teachers who visit the school to deliver lessons.

Impact:

By the time our pupils leave us at the end of KS2, they will:

The impact of the Music curriculum at Sutton-on-Sea Primary can be seen through:

• Our children being engaged and excited by our music curriculum. The skills that they are taught enable them to appreciate music throughout their lives and to pursue musical tuition further if they choose.
• Our children becoming confident performers, composers and listeners, who can express themselves musically inside and outside of school.
• Our children showing appreciation and respect for a range of musical genres across a variety of generations.
• Our children demonstrating and expressing enthusiasm for music in the curriculum and other musical opportunities in school.
• Our children meeting the expectations for the end of each key stage as outlined in the National Curriculum by developing their knowledge and skills through our Music curriculum.