Subject Leader: Mrs Curwen
At Lindale CE Primary School, we believe that all children should have a variety of experiences and opportunities in music including performing, composing and appraising pieces. We are always trying to make our music curriculum cross-curricular by linking lessons to topics and using ICT to enhance.
In Class 2, all children learn the recorder. We also have a range of other musical instruments to use across all year groups. In Class 3, all children join up with hundreds of other schools at the Manchester Arena to perform in the largest school choir concert in the world! For this, we learn a range of songs paired with dance moves. All children take part in learning and performing songs in our Christmas performance each year; those children in year 4,5& 6 also have the opportunity to sing solos or in a small group.
Music is a key part of our collective worship. We have a singing worship each week as well as singing every day linked to our worship topic.
We have an outside keyboard teacher who runs a session once a week for those children who want to learn the keyboard. We also offer choir as an after school club – this offers further experiences such as performing at the Grange Extravaganza and singing in church.
We follow the National Curriculum for Music:
Purpose of study
Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity. A high-quality music education should engage and inspire pupils to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians, and so increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement. As pupils progress, they should develop a critical engagement with music, allowing them to compose, and to listen with discrimination to the best in the musical canon.
Aims
The national curriculum for music aims to ensure that all pupils:
Attainment targets
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.
Subject content
Key stage 1
Pupils should be taught to:
Key stage 2
Pupils should be taught to sing and play musically with increasing confidence and control. They should develop an understanding of musical composition, organising and manipulating ideas within musical structures and reproducing sounds from aural memory.
Pupils should be taught to: