Music

Music Statement of Intent:

At St Helen’s Primary Academy, we intend that children should master music to such an extent that they can go on and have careers within music and make use of music effectively in their everyday lives. Our children will gain experience and skills of a wide range of dimensions of music in a way that will enhance their learning opportunities, enabling them to use music in a wide variety of contexts, ensuring they make progress. St Helen’s Primary’s curriculum enables children to have the opportunities to connect with others and to foster a lifelong love of music by exposing them to diverse musical experiences that will ignite a passion for music.

Implementation

We follow a broad and balanced Music curriculum that builds on previous learning and provides both support and challenge for learners. All classes have a music lesson each week.

To support the teaching of our music curriculum, we use Kapow's resources that incorporates the individual strands below to create engaging and enriching learning experiences:

Performing
Listening
Composing
The history of music
The inter-related dimensions of music

Each five-lesson unit combines these strands within a cross curricular topic designed to engage pupils and encourage them to explore music enthusiastically and creatively. Over the course of the scheme children will be taught to:

Sing fluently and expressively
Play tuned and untuned instruments accurately and with control.
Recognise and name interrelated dimensions of music - pitch, duration, tempo, timbre, structure, texture and dynamics

Impact

Our children enjoy and value Music and know why they are doing things, not just how. Children will understand and appreciate the value of music in the context of their personal wellbeing and the creative and cultural industries and their many career opportunities. The Music curriculum will contribute to children’s personal development in creativity, independence, judgement and self-reflection. This would be seen in them being able to talk confidently about their work and sharing their work with others.

After the implementation of Kapow’s Primary music, pupils should leave primary education equipped with a range of skills to enable them to succeed in their secondary education and to be able to enjoy and appreciate music throughout their lives.

The expected impact is that pupils will:

Be confident performers, composers and listeners and will be able to express themselves musically.
Show an appreciation and respect for a wide range of musical styles from around the world and will understand how music is influenced by the wider cultural, social and historical contexts in which it is developed.
Understand the ways in which music can be written down to support performing and composing activities.
Demonstrate and articulate an enthusiasm for music and to be able to identify their own personal music preference.
Meet the end of year key stage expectations outlined in the National curriculum for Music.