Music
Music
Intent
At Howbridge Infant School our aim is to provide children with opportunities to perform, compose, listen, appraise (review and evaluate) across a range of music. We will provide a broad and balanced curriculum ensuring a progressive curriculum. Children will be introduced to a wide range of musical vocabulary, techniques and styles of music. Each year children will build on their previous knowledge and all children will be given opportunities for all children to create, play, perform and enjoy music both in class and to an audience. Throughout the school year children can take part in many different music lunchtime clubs, learning a selection of musical instruments and opportunities for singing. There will be talent shows, concerts, weekly music assemblies and key stage performances, giving children the chance to showcase their talent and understanding about the importance of performing with an awareness of others. We believe that music education is important in developing children to feel part of a community and work together as an ensemble. Music lessons and the use of music cross curricular gives children an opportunity to recognise their own musical ability, explore their own musicality and most importantly enjoy music.
Implementation
Music teaching at Howbridge Infant school delivers the requirements of the National Curriculum 2014 through our own school curriculum subject map and the use of the music scheme Kapow primary. Classroom teachers deliver fun, engaging lessons and use music throughout the whole curriculum (e.g. singing songs to remember important information in history) Music skills and knowledge are taught progressively each year building on children’s previous learning of genres, composition and vocabulary, demonstrated through our curriculum progression map.
Children will learn to:
- Listen and appraise.
- Sing individually or as part of an ensemble.
- Play a wide range of tuned and untuned instruments.
- Explore musical techniques e.g. pulse, rhythm, tempo, pitch.
- Improvise and compose.
- Perform, share and evaluate.
Children will also have opportunities to try a variety of different instruments through lessons, lunch time music clubs and local community music festivals and performances.
Impact
We measure the impact of our music curriculum through the following methods:
- Pupil voice/perception questionnaires.
- Music assessment recorded via online assessment tracker Sonar.
- Photo and video evidence of the pupils’ practical learning, some opportunities recorded in class floor books.
- Uptake in half termly music clubs and additional 1:1 teaching.
By the time children leave Howbridge Infant School they will:
- have developed an enjoyment and understanding of music across the school curriculum.
- have gained a large understanding of different musical genres and be able to appraise them.
- explored a large range of musical techniques and vocabulary e.g. pitch, tempo, pulse.
use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes. - play tuned and untuned instruments musically.
- listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music.
- experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music.
Disadvantaged Pupils
High expectations are set for disadvantaged pupils to ensure they make progress equal to that of other pupils. Teachers encourage high engagement and interest in the subject to ensure pupils develop their knowledge, skills and understanding, providing them with a solid base for future life. Children will be given many opportunities to join music clubs and play a large variety of musical instruments. Peripatetic lessons are offered via Essex Music Services with vouchers offered for DP.
SEND
Children will be given access to the use of music in addition to their weekly music lesson. Learning music increases a child’s self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement. Music allows children to discover areas of strength. Children have the opportunity to learn to play untuned and tuned instruments. Music can be explored in class work or as one-to-one activities.