Subject overview: 

Music at Little Green involves the four main skills of composing, listening, singing and performing. It will be a focus over the next academic year to have more whole class instrument lessons as well as more lessons around notation. 

Key strengths:

• Singing
  - Singing assemblies have exposed the children to a wider variety of genres of music.
  - The Little Green Choir have had a fairly successful year, including performances at  Christmas Carol Concert and the Summer Fair. 

• Listening
  - Within the past few years, the children have developed a more secure understanding of how to listen to music and appreciate different musical components in lessons and in music appreciation assemblies.

• Composing
  - This year, all year groups have had some composition lessons, including making soundscapes and writing a song either using instruments or digitally using bandlab.
  - 1:1 lessons have continued to help children build confidence with certain instruments.
  - Year 4 have worked well to learn how to play a cornet. 

• Performing
  - Due to the pandemic, performances have been limited until the 2021-2022 academic year. However, we were still able to perform some performances including Leavers' shows, Y4 Nativity play and The Christmas Carol Concert. 

Key Areas for Development: 

• Singing and Performing 
  - One way we can develop as a school is to have more singing performances. This can be just the choir or the whole school. I would like to have a choir assembly in the Spring Term next year, as it gives the choir a purpose every term (Carol Concert, Spring Show and Summer Fair). 

• Listening
  - The aim for next year will be to keep teaching the children to appreciate music, specifically looking at vocabulary such as pitch, texture, tempo and volume. 

• Composing
  - Next year, I would like to implement having more instruments in lessons, especially in the upper school (Year 5 and Year 6). I would like the children to develop a more secure understanding of the technical elements to composing. This could also be through using bandlab.
  - In Year 3 Spring Term, I would like to implement the use of recorders to give the children the foundations of how to read music that will then develop with Mr Horton in Year 4 when playing cornets.