Our Curriculum Music
Music Statement of Intent
At Cottingley Primary Academy, our music curriculum is designed to inspire every child to choose a remarkable life. We offer a varied and broad range of opportunities for our students to explore their passions and talents, these are carefully planned to extend our children’s limited experiences. Through our ambitious music curriculum we aim to foster creativity, self-expression and musical skills which will empower students to explore their potential and use their voice to discover, challenge and question.
Music Sequence of Learning
Curriculum Map
Progression Map
Knowledge and Vocabulary
Our Music Curriculum
The music curriculum has been designed to ensure that children have been taught, and have exposure to, the key musical skills; we want children to have the skills and knowledge necessary to make more music, think more musically and be more musical.
Across each year (from R - Y6) children work with specialist peripatetic music teachers as well as their own class teacher. They are taught skills of performing, listening, composition and reading notation. In LKS2 children begin learning the ukulele over a 2 year period, as children move into UKS2 they explore percussion, starting with unturned and then moving onto tuned over a 2 year period. This allows pupils to experience voice (which they build throughout their whole time at Cottingley), string and percussion before moving to high school. The other music families (wind and brass) are covered through visits in / workshops and visits out so that pupils have had access to a full breadth of opportunity.
Through carefully planned musical appreciation lessons, children explore the history of music as well as consolidating their knowledge of the interrelated dimensions of music. This is supplemented by a ‘genre of the week’ which is played in communal areas at different times throughout the day through SONOS speakers.
Opportunities for performance have been planned across school and progressive enrichment is also used to supplement the curriculum with pupils taking part in and experiencing live music in different venues.
We want all children at Cottingley Primary Academy to leave year 6 having developed a life-long love of music and the confidence, appreciation and enjoyment of music to want to build on it further in the future. With the end goal for children to be able to perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions, including the works of the great composers and musicians. Understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated, including through the inter-related dimensions: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations.
National Curriculum
Subject Rationale