The power of music is all around us. It is the soundtrack to our lives. Music connects us through people and places in our ever-changing world. It is creative, collaborative, celebratory and challenging. Music can bring communities together through the shared endeavour of whole-school singing, ensemble playing, experimenting with the creative process and, through the love of listening to friends and fellow pupils, performing. The sheer joy of music making can feed the soul of a school community, enriching each student while strengthening the shared bonds of support and trust.  (The Model Music Curriculum 2021)

 

Curriculum Intent

Music teaching at Binbrook C of E Primary School aims to follow the specifications of the National Curriculum enhanced by the complementary Model Music Curriculum; providing a broad, balanced and differentiated curriculum and ensuring the progressive development of musical concepts, knowledge and skills.

At Binbrook C of E Primary, we believe that music plays an integral role in helping children to feel part of a community, therefore we provide opportunities for all children to create, play, perform and enjoy music both in class and to an audience. Through assemblies and key stage performances, children showcase their talent and their understanding of performing with awareness of others. Lessons enable children to develop their skills, appreciate a wide variety of music and begin to appraise a range of musical genres.

The aims of our Music curriculum are to develop pupils who:

· Enjoy and have an appreciation for music.

· Listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, cultures, styles and traditions.

· Can sing and use their voices to create different effects.

· Create and compose music, both on their own and with others.

 · Use a range of musical language.

· Make judgements and express personal preferences about the quality and style of music.

· Take part in performances with an awareness of audience.

 

Implementation

Music teaching at Binbrook C of E Primary delivers the requirements of the National Curriculum through use of the Charanga schemes of work. Teachers follow the planned schemes of work which provide the steps for a differentiated, spiral approach to musical learning. Within each unit of learning, students revisit existing knowledge and skills and then build upon and extend them incrementally. In this manner, learning is consolidated and augmented, allowing for increasing musical confidence, while constantly being gently challenged to go further.  Music lessons are broken down into half-termly units and an emphasis is placed on musical vocabulary, allowing children to talk about pieces of music using the correct terminology. Each unit of work has an on-going musical learning focus and lessons usually follow a specific learning sequence:

· Listen and Appraise

· Musical Activities (including pulse and rhythm)

· Singing and Voice

· Playing instruments

· Improvisation / Composition

· Perform and Share

Within the EYFS setting, music is an integral part of children’s learning journey. Rhyme and rhythm are utilised throughout the learning of phonics, handwriting and mathematics. Children learn a wide range of songs and rhymes and develop skills for performing together. Singing and music making opportunities are used frequently to embed learning, develop musical awareness and to demonstrate how music can be used to express feelings.

Performance is at the heart of musical teaching and learning at Binbrook C of E Primary and pupils participate in a range of performances during their school ‘career’. These include nativities, Easter performances and a Leavers performance.  Pupils also take part in Harvest assemblies and singing assemblies. Pupils who are confident are encouraged to perform in solo performances. Parents are invited and welcomed to watch performances both in school and outside of school.

At Binbrook C of E Primary, we also recognise that our staff have musical abilities that can be utilised to supplement our musical curriculum. Pupils in KS2 have the opportunity to learn to play the ukulele as part of their music lessons. Pupils also have the opportunity to join the school choir. The school choir is open to all children on a weekly basis, with the average number of pupils being in the range of 10-20. Pupils in the school choir focus on singing in unison, developing harmony, solo performances and having fun! The school choir also have the opportunity to perform in school performances, carol concerts and have sung at a range of events both in school and at other venues.

Alongside our curriculum provision for music, pupils also have the opportunity to participate in additional 1:1 music teaching by being offered the opportunity to learn a musical instrument with peripatetic teachers. Our peripatetic music teaching is organised by the Lincolnshire Music Service.

 

Impact

Our music Curriculum is planned to demonstrate progression and build on and embed current skills. We focus on progression of knowledge and skills in the different musical components and teaching of vocabulary also forms part of the units of work. If children are achieving the knowledge and skills in lessons, then they are deemed to be making good or better progress. We measure the impact of our curriculum through the following methods:

 · Pupil discussions and interviewing the pupils about their learning (pupil voice).

· Governor monitoring with our subject music link governor.

· Annual reporting and tracking of standards across the curriculum.

· Photo and video evidence of the pupil’s practical learning.

· Use of the assessment tools provided within the Charanga scheme.

· Dedicated music leader time.

The impact of our music curriculum is also measured in the uptake of our musical extra-curricular school clubs and uptake of additional music 1:1 teaching.

	The Interrelated Dimensions of Music	[pdf 2MB]
	Learning Progression	[pdf 2MB]
	Knowledge Skills - Year 6	[pdf 191KB]
	Knowledge Skills - Year 5	[pdf 102KB]
	Knowledge Skills - Year 4	[pdf 342KB]
	Knowledge Skills - Year 3	[pdf 108KB]
	Year2 MMC Progression of Knowledge and Skills	[pdf 100KB]
	Year 1 MMC Progression of Knowledge and Skills	[pdf 77KB]
	Knowledge Skills - Year R	[pdf 166KB]