Pupil Work
Pupil Work
On this page is a selection of work to demonstrate the learning that takes place in Music lessons across the school. We have included a variety of written work, alongside photos of the children learning and participating in class to show the wide range of activities in which they take part.
Early Years
In Reception class, music is explored under the umbrella of expressive arts and design. Opportunities for music are embedded in our basic provision, which the children can access freely on a daily basis. Planned music sessions are taught directly throughout the year, in line with the whole school music curriculum to prepare children for Year One. We also run weekly sessions to allow the children to explore various performing arts strands such as storytelling, playing instruments, singing and dancing.
Through play, children have access to a variety of instruments and musical skills, including cross-curricular opportunities including; performances, singing songs to learn phonics as well as singing games. The great thing about early years activities is that they can be used to get early years children interested in writing and singing their own songs.
Key Stage 1
In Key Stage 1, the children continue to develop their understanding of key Musical skills and concepts, such as beginning to use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chats and rhythms.
Children will also continue to play tuned and untuned instruments musically as well as listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music. Children experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the interrelated dimensions of music
The children demonstrate their learning in a variety of formats. Some work will be produced digitally and others will be recorded using videos or simple notation.
Lower Key Stage 2
In Years 3 and 4, the children further develop their skills across the Music Curriculum.
Children are taught to sing and play musically with increasing confidence and control. They develop an understanding of musical composition, organising and manipulating ideas within musical structures and reproducing sounds from aural memory.
Within Years 3 and 4, children are beginning to play and perform in solo and ensemble, use their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression, as well as improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the interrelated dimensions of music.
The children are also introduced to new digital music tools to enable them to effectively compose and music make on various platforms, as well as a wider variety of instruments. In the Summer term, in both Year 3 and 4, we welcome in external music specialists to teach the children a new instrument. These are: Guitar (Year 3) and Brass (Year 4).
Upper Key Stage 2
In Years 5 and 6, children continue to build on their skills. They develop their understanding of more complex musical dimensions. They further develop their listening with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory.
They continue to use and understand staff notation and other musical notations, as well as appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians. Therefore, children build and develop an understanding of the history of music
Upper Key Stage 2 continue to embed their growing knowledge of digital music composition through a short film music project, enhancing their creativity and critical thinking to becoming effective creators of digital music.
Another element used to showcase work in KS2, is the use of learning an instrument. Year 5 begin to learn the Ukulele, and Year 6 learn to play the Glockenspiel (xylophone).