Music

Intent

We intend for children to love music, feel that they are musical and to have experienced making music in different ways. We focus on developing the skills, knowledge and understanding to be confident, performers, listeners and composers. Our curriculum is chosen to reflect music across time and space with musical inspiration taken from all over the world.

Children will develop the skills of playing instruments, composing music, singing, listening to and responding to different music. They will develop an understanding of the history and cultural context of music and how music is written down.

We follow the KAPOW scheme of work which enables pupils to meet the targets and aims of the National Curriculum.

Implementation

Music is taught weekly with 6 units of work being covered over the year. Music at Dinton is taught by a specialist music teacher. The curriculum is organised on a 2 year rolling program to meet the needs of our mixed aged classes.

Lessons are structured carefully with 5 interwoven themes being developed across the year. These themes are:

• Performing
• Listening
• Composing
• The history of music
• The inter related dimensions of music

Over the course of the scheme children will be taught how to sing fluently, and expressively and be taught to play a range of instruments. To support the teaching of music the school has purchased glass sets of glockenspiels, ukuleles and recorders. Singing is developed further in weekly whole class singing sessions.

Children will learn to recognise and name interrelated dimensions of music:

• Pitch
• Duration
• Tempo
• Timbre
• Structure
• Texture
• Dynamics

Children get the opportunities to use these expressively in their own compositions.

The scheme follows a spiral curriculum where previous skills and knowledge are returned to and built upon. In each lesson, pupils will experience a range of styles and traditions. This will improve their understanding of how music works.

Music at Dinton is taught by a specialist teacher for an hour each week. This enables pupils to be taught by someone with expert subject knowledge. This includes whole school singing. Our musical offer is strengthened by our lunchtime music club, biennial school show, fortnightly celebration worship and regular acts of worship for major celebrations such as Harvest.

Impact

The impact of the scheme can be monitored by built in formative and summative assessment opportunities. Teachers make an annual judgement as to whether a pupil is working at expectations or considerably above or below them. This judgement is shared with parents in the annual report.

Key learning is captured in Knowledge organisers which are shared with pupils to help them to remember key knowledge and vocabulary.

The expected impact will be that children:

• Meet the end of key stage expectations for music
• Be confident composers, performers and listeners of music and be able to express themselves musically
• Show an appreciation of different musical styles from around the world and understand how music is influenced by different factors.
• Understand how music is written down in different ways
• To be enthusiastic about music and be able to identify their own musical preferences