Our Music Curriculum
All our teachers, specialist and non-specialist, teach music in class and we use the Charanga Musical School Scheme to support teaching and learning. It provides progression and assessment, as well as engaging and exciting whiteboard resources to support lessons. It is an integrated, practical, exploratory and child-led approach to musical learning. The interrelated dimensions of music weave through the uits to encourage the development of musical skills as the learning progresses through listening and appraising, differing musical activities (including creating and exploring) and performing.
Each Unit of Work comprises of the strands of musical leanring which correspond with the national curriculum for music:
1. Listening and Appraising
2. Musical Activities: warm up games/flexible games/singing/playing instruments/improvisation/composition
3. Performing
Charanga enables children to understand musical concepts through a repetition-based aprroach to learning. Learning about the same musical concept through different musical activities enables a more secure, deeper learning and master of musical skills.
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National Curriculum Music Programme of Study | [pdf 98KB] |
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Music Progression of Knowledge and Skills | [pdf 120KB] |
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Music Progression of Concepts | [pdf 115KB] |
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Peter and the Wolf
This is a very famous piece of music and was written especially to appeal to children and to help them appreciate the sounds of orchestral instuments. We are very lucky that some musicians from our village visited school to share their musical talents. What an amazing timbre the oboe and french horn have - very different - both both beautiful.
