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Music

Our Intent

At Musbury Primary School, our intent is firmly aligned to the aims of the national curriculum for 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.

Our Implementation

Music is taught weekly and planned across the school as a rolling programme. For Class 1 we have a 2-year plan and for Class 2 we have a 4-year plan. Our curriculum overviews identify when each area of the music national curriculum is taught. Leaders have made decisions about what unit of knowledge is taught when and our progression document highlights the small steps in skills for each year group. Each unit places an emphasis on children's skills and knowledge with an instrument, taking into consideration what year group a child is when each unit is taught, and any prior knowledge that they may have.

 

Working closely with the East Devon Music Hub, we are able to borrow class sets of musical instruments on a termly basis so that children can be taught how to play different instruments, in the hope that they may choose to take up a musical instrument as a hobby.

 

Please see our Music Development Plan to the right of this page.

Where possible, we enrich the children's learning with trips and visits or we invite visitors in to school, so that the children can be inspired by a wide range of talents. We have recently worked with the Exeter Choristers as part of an outreach project and performed with them in Exeter Cathedral. We have also held school workshops and the children have learned the art of composition alongside local musicians. 

The Impact

Teachers may choose to record the 'end of lesson' sharing as part of their formative assessment processes. This information can then be used later in the sequence where there is the option to revisit and perform a song/songs as required. We also value pupil reflection and self-assessment - as a learning tool. Children may be supported to review a performance, give feedback to others or talk about the progress that has been made. At Musbury, we agree with the Charanga principle that “urges all teachers to not let assessment get too much in the way of the actual musical learning and music making. As in all areas of education, in music education, assessment should serve learning and not the other way round.

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