Streethouse Primary School

Music

Music can feed the soul of a school community. By introducing music and providing opportunities for children to perform and express themselves through music we can provide enriching experiences that strengthen bonds of support, stimulate creativity and create sheer joy together. Music provides a platform to perform to an audience building the confidence and resilience required to become successful adults in the wider world beyond school life.

Intent

At Streethouse we are committed to high quality provision of music and cultural education across a broad and balanced curriculum. We believe that Music provides our pupils with a variety of engaging and exciting opportunities that inspire them to develop a love of Music and their talent as musicians. In turn, this will promote and increase upon their own mental health and wellbeing. Our Music curriculum is inspiring and ambitiously designed to offer a wide range of opportunities and enrichments. We strive to incorporate a vast range of culture into the everyday life of our school and create cross-curricular links in all areas of our well sequenced curriculum.

Enabling children to develop critical engagement with Music, allows them to compose, appreciate and listen with purpose to a range of musical genres.

We want all our pupils:

·      * To perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions

·             *  To learn to sing and use their voices, to create and compose music on their own and with others

·       *  To have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument, use technology appropriately and have the opportunity to progress to the next level of musical excellence

·       *    To understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated, including through inter-related dimensions; pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations.

National Curriculum

Key stage 1 - Pupils should be taught to:

• Use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes
• Play tuned and untuned instruments musically
• Listen with concentration and understand a range of high quality live and recorded music
• Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using inter-related dimensions of music

Key Stage 2 - Pupils should be taught to sing and play musically with increasing confidence and control. They should develop an understanding of musical composition, organising and manipulating ideas within musical structures and reproducing sounds from aural memory. Pupils should be taught to:

• Play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression
• Improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music
• Listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory
• Use and understand staff and other musical notations
• Appreciate and understand a wide range of high quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians
• Develop an understanding of the history of music

Implementation

At Streethouse we provide specialist teaching of music through Junior Jam who provides a range of experiences in music. Junior Jam’s curriculum is designed to provide pupils with a broad range of musical experiences within lesson time. Every year pupils will study 3 core subjects: Music theory with Keyboards, Songwriting with Glockenspiels and Singing which are delivered across three half terms throughout the year. The remaining three half terms within the year are instrument focused whole class tuition in order to ensure pupils have the opportunity to perform on a variety of tuned and untuned instrumentation from a wide range of different cultures.

The scheme follows the spiral curriculum model where previous skills and knowledge are returned to and built upon. Children progress in terms of tackling more complex tasks and doing more simple tasks better, as well as developing a deeper understanding and knowledge of music and instruments.

Impact

The impact of our Music curriculum will be constantly monitored by Junior jam specialist teachers, tracking pupil assessment. Teachers can also identify the positive impact that Music has on children's learning. Throughout each lesson, Junior jam teachers assess pupils against the objectives and at the end of each unit there is often a performance where teachers can assess children's learning. This will help identify gaps in the children's learning and how to fill these.

Children should leave primary school equipped with a range of skills to enable them to succeed in their secondary education and to enjoy and appreciate Music throughout their lives.

The expected impact of following Junior Jam Music scheme of work is that children will:

• Produce, creative and perform musical pieces - exploring and recording their ideas and experiences.
• Be proficient in playing a range of tuned and untuned musical instruments.
• Evaluate and analyse creative works using subject specific language.
• Meet the end of key stage expectations outlined in the National Curriculum for Music.