Music

Intent

At Coldfair Green Primary School we understand how important music is as both a creative yet highly academic subject and the part it plays in a child’s life. We intend to provide children with opportunities to listen to, compose and perform music that’s linked in with learning from a range of topics. We encourage children to leave school with a love of music and happy memories of their musical experience that they will want to continue to develop and enjoy. We aim to develop children’s musical awareness and foster an appreciation of music from different times and cultures, progression of musical skills involved in performing, composing, listening and appraising. We encourage children to express themselves through music and develop self-esteem through musical achievement and contribute to the life of the school and the wider community and to enrich and contribute to other areas of the curriculum.

Implementation

We teach music weekly. Each lesson is taught by the class teacher and uses the Charanga scheme of work to deliver the curriculum. With a focus on the dimensions of music (pulse, pitch, dynamics, rhythm, texture and tempo) as well as listening to, improvising, singing and composing music, we plan to provide our children with a quality, enriched and engaging music education. We are have strong links with the Britten Pears Trust and take part in regular musical workshops, lessons and visits with performers and musicians from Snape Maltings and The Red House in Aldeburgh

Impact

Our Music Curriculum is of high quality, it is well thought out and is planned to demonstrate progression. We measure the impact of our curriculum through the following methods:

• A reflection on standards achieved against the planned outcomes.

• Having the opportunity to listen to music from a long range of genres from history to gain both inspiration and analytical skills.

• Assessment through compositions and performances.

• Having equal opportunities for all pupils, such  as musical instrument lessons and choir club

• Ensemble work through weekly singing assemblies.

• Pupil discussions about their learning.

• Pupils working in mixed ability groups in order to develop leadership, responsibility and confidence