Music

The national curriculum for music aims to ensure that all pupils:

• perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions, including the works of the great composers and musicians
• learn to sing and to use their voices, to create and compose music on their own and with others, have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument, use technology appropriately and have the opportunity to progress to the next level of musical excellence
• understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated, including through the inter-related dimensions: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations

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At Primrose Hill Primary School, we aim to foster an enjoyment and appreciation of music to include the development of an understanding of the elements of music: pitch, dynamics, duration, tempo, timbre, texture and structure. Furthermore, we aim to encourage self expression through music and to develop an awareness of the music of ours and other cultures including an awareness of a variety of musical styles.

We work to develop a range of musical skills including: listening, appraising, composing, interpreting and memorising.

At Primrose Hill Primary, we believe the opportunity to be able to play a musical instrument is very important to a child’s development and we also try to develop familiarity with a range of musical instruments.

As part of their musical understanding, children are encouraged to explore how music can create moods and feelings, and provoke an emotional response.

We aim to develop the children’s social skills via group composition and performance.

We use the ‘Charanga’ scheme as a basis for most of our music teaching. Through our long term planning we link the scheme to topics where relevant. In some topics we use additional teacher material to ensure that children receive the best opportunities possible. Where there are excess activities within a scheme lesson, the crucial objectives and activities have been highlighted. Children develop their skills with tuned percussion instruments such as glockenspiels. Teachers plan from our music scheme. Where the scheme is used, copies of the unit overview with crucial learning outcomes is sufficient. For other music work teachers plan using the medium term planning sheets.

Children within Year 5, learn how to play a musical instrument with the aid of MAPAS- the Salford Music and Performing Arts Service. A termly concert is performed in-front of parents and the wider community, where children can showcase their abilities to read music and perform.

All children will develop their performance skills by show casing songs they have learnt in the class assemblies for their families and peers twice a year.