Music
Music is a highly enjoyable experience for pupils at our school.
Our music curriculum, which is informed by the Model Music Curriculum (MMC) (2021), develops musical knowledge within this conceptual framework. In this curriculum, musical experience is developed through singing, listening, composing (including improvising) and performing. These musical practices are woven throughout the curriculum, and are carefully sequenced so that pupils can build procedural knowledge and technical skills through practice.
This allows them to begin to realise and develop their own expressive intentions through music. Beginning to understand the language of music might be described as becoming more ‘musical’. Each unit has a musical focus, such as pulse, rhythm, tempo, pitch, timbre, dynamics, form/structure, texture or harmony or a combination of these.
The children will explore how music is constructed using the elements of music by listening analytically or using them as components to build their own compositions. Experience of, understanding and use of these elements build gradually throughout the curriculum.
The different elements of music do not exist in isolation from each other, so, whilst a unit will have a primary musical focus on a particular dimension, other dimensions are highlighted and used alongside the primary dimension to develop the children's musical understanding. As such these elements are woven throughout the curriculum so that children can begin to build automaticity in their musical practice.