Music / Please click on the link below to view an overview of our music curriculum.
Music at Hollingworth Primary School
Intent
At Hollingworth Primary School, we value music as a must powerful and unique form of communication that can change and impact the way children feel, think and act. We believe that teaching music helps the body and the mind work together. Exposing children to music during early development helps them to learn the sounds and meanings of words. Dancing to music helps children build motor skills while allowing them to practice self-expression. We believe that every child should have the opportunity to develop their musical potential and we aim to nurture and encourage musical development across the school.
‘Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity’ (The National Curriculum)
The aims of our Music curriculum are to develop pupils who:
- Can sing and use their voices individually and in a group
- Create and compose music on their own and with others
- Have opportunities to learn a musical instrument
- Understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated
- Listen to, review and evaluate the work of great composers and musicians from a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions
- Enjoy and have an appreciation of a range of different musical styles e.g. Classical, Jazz, Hip Hop, Pop, Rock etc.
- Use and understand musical language and include musical features in their own work
- Make judgements about the quality of music
- Have opportunities to play a wide variety of instruments
- Have different opportunities to take part in performances including class plays, productions and outside musical experiences such as Young Voices.
Implementation
Our music curriculum is shaped by our school vision, which aims to enable all children, regardless of background, ability, additional needs, to flourish to become the very best version of themselves they can possibly be. We teach the National Curriculum, supported by a clear skills and knowledge progression through our music scheme – ‘Charanga.’ This ensures that skills and knowledge are built upon year-by-year and sequenced appropriately to maximise learning for all children.
Impact
Whilst in school, our children have opportunities to forge their own musical journey, which allows them to discover areas of strength, as well as areas they might like to improve upon. The integral nature of music and the learner creates an enormously rich palette from which a child may access fundamental abilities such as: achievement, self-confidence, interaction with and awareness of others, and self-reflection. Music will also develop an understanding of culture and history, both in relation to students individually, as well as ethnicities from across the world. Children are able to enjoy music, in as many ways as they choose – as either listener, creator or performer. They can discuss music and comprehend its parts. They can sing, feel a pulse, add rhythms and create melodies in a group and they can further develop these skills in the future and continue to enjoy and embrace music in their lives.
Please click on the link below to view our music curriculum.
National Curriculum – Music
Music Progression document – Year R – Year 6
Knowledge _ Skills – Year R (1)
Knowledge _ Skills – Year 1 (2)
Knowledge _ Skills – Year 2 (1)
Knowledge _ Skills – Year 3 (1)
Knowledge _ Skills – Year 4 (1)
Knowledge & Skills – Year 5 (1)
Knowledge _ Skills – Year 6 (2)
Hollingworth Primary School – Music Policy