Intent
In music, we want the children at Claverley CE Primary school to experience a curriculum which gives them success, knowledge, skills and vocabulary. We want our children to be confident in their music knowledge and enjoy a range of music throughout their time at Claverley.
Our music curriculum will ensure children will:
- Develop their understanding and use of musical vocabulary
- Gain a good understanding of the inter-related dimensions of music
- Be able to listen to and respond to a range of different music
- Develop musical skills of singing, performing, playing tuned and untuned instruments, improvising and composing
- Become experts in singing through music sessions, performing and through exposure to hymns during collective worships.
- Develop their sense of identity by exploring music through history and contemporary music.
- Enjoy music from different countries and cultures.
- Be able to reflect on what they do and don’t enjoy through being exposed to a range of music styles, genres and eras.
At Claverley we want children to experience the joy and wonder music can bring. We aim to do this by incorporating music into many aspects of our day, as well as our music lessons. We listen to music to help us reflect and wonder in collective worship. We also use music to celebrate experiences and achievements in class and during celebration assembly.
We shape our Music Curriculum to ensure it is fully inclusive to every child regardless of their learning needs. Our aim is to develop in each child a love of music and to nurture their talents as musicians, leading to increased self-confidence and sense of achievement. Pupils at Claverley are offered a wide range of performance opportunities both in school and in the local community. They are given a consistent experience of progression of skills and consolidation of learning.
Implementation
At Claverley, music is taught weekly as PPA cover by an experienced HLTA to Year 1/2 and 3/4. It is taught as PPA cover to Rec/Year 1 and Year 5/6 by Shropshire Music Service. We use our music progression document, supported by Kapow Primary music scheme to ensure the national curriculum for music is delivered in each year group. We feel that using the Kapow music scheme to support music teaching, ensures our music curriculum is being delivered sequentially and confidently.
Through the use of Kapow, our music curriculum takes a holistic approach to teaching music. The elements of music are woven together within each topic, allowing children to revisit and practise musical skills in a range of ways. The elements of music we focus on are as follows:
- Performing
- Listening
- Composing
- The inter-related dimensions of music
- The History of Music (KS2)
Music learning is recorded in floor books for each class through photos and comments.
We ensure these children have opportunities to perform their music to the school or their class throughout the year.
Impact
The structured and successful approach to Music within Claverley results in a high quality and stimulating experience for all pupils. Monitoring the impact on pupils is shown through: self-evaluation, assessment, ongoing evidence
including recording and performance. The Headteacher monitors the quality of children’s learning through Learning Walks.
- Children will enjoy listening to and creating music
- Children will make good progress in music
- Children will be able to know more, remember more and do more in music
- Children have a positive start to their music journey through exploration and exposure in EYFS
- Children will be able to use music vocabulary to talk about elements of music they listen to and create
- Children will be able to compose and improvise music with their voice and instruments
- Children will be confident performers independently or in a group
- Children will be able to talk about music from a range of cultures and periods of time
- Children will be developing as musicians in their own right and exploring their preferences to a range of music styles, genres and eras.
Music long term overview
Progression of Skills
Music-vocabulary
This term, Shropshire Music Service have been working with Green and Yellow class