Rationale

Music at Burradon Community Primary School takes its aim from our core values:

Care and respect yourself, other people, our school and the wider world.

Stay safe, make sensible choices and do things that make you happy.

Intent:

Our Music Vision Statement:

At Burradon Community Primary School, our music curriculum aims to provide all students with a high-quality music education which engages and inspires them to develop a life-long love of music, increases their self-confidence, creativity, and imagination, and provides opportunities for self-expression and a sense of personal achievement. Modelled on the National Curriculum, we offer opportunities for students to develop their talents in all aspects of music including composing, appraising, improvising, singing and performing.

We believe that children should be encouraged to listen to and be curious about music from a range of cultures in order to gain a more rounded respect and understanding for their wider world.  

Our music curriculum allows:   

• Children to develop their performance skills through learning to play tuned and untuned instruments, singing a variety of songs and rehearsing and performing with others.
• Children to develop their composing skills through creating musical patterns and exploring and organising sounds and learning to record these in a variety of ways.
• Children to learn to analyse and compare sounds, explore ideas and make improvements to their work, building on their appraising skills.
• Children to learn to listen with increased concentration to internalise and recall sounds

Implementation: Our curriculum

Music is taught every week in all year groups at our school.  In Foundation Stage, they incorporate music naturally into their every day through songs linked to many curriculum areas as well as musical instruments being available for the children to use in the environment during free play.  Children in EYFS are given opportunities to design and make their own instruments in the modelling area which is available all year round. We have bought an online music resource ‘Charanga’ and use this as our main scheme of work throughout the year groups, from Reception to Year 6. These units show progression in skills across the music curriculum (linked to National Curriculum) and build upon prior learning with small steps.  We include the Nursery (FS1) children into our music lessons and they are also submerged in opportunities for singing, dancing and action songs and games.  

What do our pupils think about music?

Y1 - We learn about what music they are. We learn new songs.

Y2 – I like listening to different music. You hear different pitches and fast and slow.

Y3  - I like learning recorders. We have learnt a B, A and G note. (Proceeded to show me how to put fingers for each note.)

Y4 I enjoy the songs. I’ve learnt about rap music. Lessons are really fun. I’ve learnt how to rap and that the rap is about being kind. I like listening to it.

Y5 I like using the instruments. I like playing the glockenspiel. I like playing the games with the drumsticks.

Y6 I like clapping the rhythms. I like playing the glockenspiels. Music is fun!