Music
Our Intent
At Holycroft Primary School, our music curriculum is designed to be accessible to all so that every child can gain a firm understanding of what music is through listening, singing, playing, evaluating, analysing and composing across a wide variety of historical periods, styles, traditions and musical genres.
Our intent is to build a music curriculum that is progressive and builds upon previous learning whilst promoting a love of music and singing across a broad curriculum. We will encourage children to participate in opportunities to demonstrate a love of music and to showcase their skills.
National Curriculum Expectations
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Early Years Foundation Stage In our early years foundation stage music is intertwined accross our curriculum. We make music using percussions instruments and everyday objects in provision areas both inside and outside. In Nursery we: · Remember and sing entire songs. · Sing the pitch of a tone sung by another person (‘pitch match’). · Sing the melodic shape (moving melody, such as up and down, down and up) of familiar songs. · Create their own songs or improvise a song around one they know. · Play instruments with increasing control to express their feelings and ideas. In Reception we: · Listen attentively, move to and talk about music, expressing their feelings and responses. · Watch and talk about dance and performance art, expressing their feelings and responses. · Sing in a group or on their own, increasingly matching the pitch and following the melody. · Sing a range of well-known nursery rhymes and songs · Perform songs, rhymes, poems and stories with others, and – when appropriate – try to move in time with music. |
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Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 In KS1 and KS2 Music is taught following the Charanga scheme of work. Over KS1 and KS2 a range of different music genres and songs and taught and children learn to listen and appraise, improvise, compose and perform. |