Curriculum Music
| Curriculum Music |
What are we learning in lessons?
During the first half term of this school year we are developing our confidence to help us to improve our performance skills. We are doing this through fun, games and lots of team work. We will be singing, playing instruments, writing our own songs and performing to our class.
There is a lot of creative talent at Downs Junior School. The children develop their skills, knowledge and understanding of classical and modern music by listening, appraising, composing and performing. The music teacher, Anna Rusbatch, aims to help all children to find and believe in their talent so they can reach their musical potential.
Making music together helps children to explore and express their thoughts and feelings. Learning songs from times gone by, or from different parts of the world, helps children learn about other times and cultures.
At Downs Junior School, pupils learn to perform music both in groups and individually, and experience how their contribution makes a difference to the whole performance. Pupils learn how to express their ideas and feelings through their own music. They listen to many different types of music , picking out the detail and learning how it was created and used.
There is a lot of creative talent at Downs Junior School. The children develop their skills, knowledge and understanding of classical and modern music by listening, appraising, composing and performing. The music teacher, Anna Rusbatch, aims to help all children to find and believe in their talent so they can reach their musical potential.
Making music together helps children to explore and express their thoughts and feelings. Learning songs from times gone by, or from different parts of the world, helps children learn about other times and cultures.
At Downs Junior School, pupils learn to perform music both in groups and individually, and experience how their contribution makes a difference to the whole performance. Pupils learn how to express their ideas and feelings through their own music. They listen to many different types of music , picking out the detail and learning how it was created and used.
National Curriculum:
Purpose of study
Music is a universal language and every pupil should have the opportunity to become fluent. A high-quality music education should provide all pupils with the opportunity to sing and to learn a musical instrument. Pupils should leave school with an appreciation of how music is composed and performed, allowing them to listen with discrimination and judgement to the best in the musical canon.
Aims
The National Curriculum for music aims to ensure that all pupils:
Music is a universal language and every pupil should have the opportunity to become fluent. A high-quality music education should provide all pupils with the opportunity to sing and to learn a musical instrument. Pupils should leave school with an appreciation of how music is composed and performed, allowing them to listen with discrimination and judgement to the best in the musical canon.
Aims
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 great musicians and composers
- Learn to sing and to use their voices, to compose and make music with others, have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument, and have the opportunity to progress to the next level of musical excellence
- Understand musical notations and how music is constructed, produced and communicated through its inter-related dimensions: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture and structure.
Pupils should be taught to sing and play musically with increasing confidence and control. They should develop an understanding of musical composition, organising and manipulating ideas within musical structures and reproducing sounds from aural memory.
Pupils should be taught to:
Pupils should be taught to:
- Play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression
- Improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music
- Listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory
- Use and understand staff and other musical notations
- Appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians
- Develop an understanding of the history of music
