Music

Music

Brockworth Academy is a welcoming, caring community school. Our curriculum not only reflects the population which we serve but challenges pupils to see the wider world. We aim to prepare all of our young people for the next steps in their often complex lives.


“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” DfE, 2013

Intent

Music lessons are accessible to all pupils and encourage engagement in the wider world through a collection of musical pieces that are representative of a range of cultures, times in history and genres. Pupils who take peripatetic music lessons alongside in-class learning are challenged through incorporating the use of their own instruments within whole class lessons and extending their skills with more complex musical opportunities. The Charanga schemes of work follow a progressive spiral where initial lessons focus mainly on ‘listening and appraising’ a musical piece before extending to incorporating tuned and untuned instruments, leading up to improvisation and composition.

For SEND learners this means

  • pre-teaching subject vocabulary to decrease the vocabulary gap and to give oracy for a purpose

  • wider experiential learning means enhanced opportunities to record from experience,an increased vocabulary and raised aspirations.


Implementation

  • Teachers teach weekly music lessons.

  • The content of the lessons are driven by the Charanga Musical School schemes of work with additional units to supplement.

  • Pupils are encouraged to use the learning environment to support their use of accurate vocabulary when listening and appraising musical pieces.

  • Pupils have access to a variety of tuned and untuned instruments within whole-class music lessons.

  • Pupils are provided with the opportunity to extend their learning at home through access to their own personal login to Charanga Musical School.

  • Formative assessment is carried out within lessons and future lessons can be adapted to suit the needs of the class through a range of challenges available within each Charanga lesson.

  • Where possible, music elements are incorporated into other areas of learning and the school day.


For an overview of what we teacher over the course of the school year, take a look below:


Music Curriculum Overview Website