At Pool Hayes Primary, Music is a
subject that we celebrate and enjoy across the school.
Intent
At Pool Hayes Primary, Music is a
subject area that we enjoy across the school. Our intent is to ensure that our
Music curriculum inspires our children to think creatively and to gain an
appreciation of music. Our Music curriculum is delivered through the Charanga
teaching tool. Charanga meets all of the requirements of the statutory National
Curriculum for music and is Ofsted approved. The Charanga Musical Scheme
provides teachers with week-by-week lesson support for each year group and is
ideal for specialist and non-specialist teachers and provides lesson plans,
assessment, clear progression, and engaging and exciting whiteboard resources
to support every lesson.
Implementation
The teaching and implementation of
the Music Curriculum at Pool Hayes Primary is based on the National Curriculum
and linked (where possible) to topics to ensure a well-structured approach to
this creative subject. Using Charanga, we have given staff a framework from
which to teach sequential and progressive skills across year groups. The
children are taught Music weekly, covering units such as; ‘Me’, ‘In the
groove’, ‘Playing in a band’, ‘Creative Composition’ and ‘Farewell tour’.
In Early Years, pupils thrive in a music-rich environment.
Development Matters state the importance of music within one of their specific
areas, ‘Expressive arts and design’. There is a particular Early Learning Goal
(ELG), ‘Being imaginative and expressive’ that details the prominence of music.
Children sing a range of well-known nursery rhymes and songs, and perform
songs, rhymes, poems and stories with others, and – when appropriate try to
move in time with music.
According to the National Curriculum, Key stage 1 pupils should be
taught to use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and
speaking chants and rhymes. They should play tuned and untuned instruments
musically. They should listen with concentration and understanding to a range
of high-quality live and recorded music, and experiment with, create, select
and combine sounds using the interrelated dimensions of music
Pupils in Key Stage 2 should be taught to play and perform in solo
and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with
increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression. They should improvise and
compose music for a range of purposes using the interrelated dimensions of
music, listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural
memory. They should use and understand staff and other musical notations. They
should appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded
music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians,
and develop an understanding of the history of music.
Impact
Children talk enthusiastically about music, the processes that
they went through including any problems that they encountered along the way
and how they overcame them, and about their final products. Children will
experience a range of music from different genres and eras. They will have an understanding
of musical language and how to use it in context when discussing a piece of
music and critiquing their own composed pieces. Children will develop
performance skills through playing a range of instruments across the curriculum
and performing them to an audience. This will foster a love of music through
the knowledge of musical history and the origin of music.
Progression in Music will be assessed through photographic
evidence and recorded termly on DCPRO. Music is also monitored by the subject leader
throughout the year in the form of pupil voice (to
discuss their learning and understanding and establish the impact
of the teaching taking place), professional feedback and staff meetings.
Supporting children with SEN
Children with SEN are supported in a variety of ways in their
Music lessons. Children have access to more specialised equipment to help
assist with their needs. Where appropriate, tasks are adapted and additional
support is given by visual aids, which break down instructions. However, it is
important to note, that a child with SEN needs in reading, writing and maths,
may not require SEN support in Music, if it is deemed unnecessary.
