Curriculum Vision and Music
All of the elements of our curriculum intent statement underpin our teaching of music. However, music provides particular opportunities for teaching the following aspects of our intent statement.
Purpose and Aims of Music
Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity. A high quality music education should engage and inspire pupils to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians, and so increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement. As pupils progress, they should develop a critical engagement with music, allowing them to compose, and to listen with discrimination to the best in the musical canon.
The national curriculum for music aims to ensure that all pupils:
Organisation of Teaching
The music curriculum is carefully and coherently sequenced to enable our children to develop a growing knowledge of the themes outlined above. Pupils’ knowledge builds towards clearly defined end points so teachers and leaders know what we expect our pupils to achieve by the end of each topic, each year and each key stage. To meet the educational needs of our school community we have selected the following core knowledge concepts as a focus for our teaching. These are explored in increasing depth as pupils move through the school.
Music is taught as a discrete subject, though meaningful links are made with other subjects in our curriculum (such as links to history through our ‘Blackbird unit looking at The Beatles and civil rights). The topics we teach are outlined in the curriculum map for music (see Appendix 1). This is published on our website.
To support the high quality knowledge rich teaching lessons we aim for, the school subscribes to ‘Charanga’ scheme of learning. All teaching materials are adapted to meet the requirements of our Christian vision and curriculum intent.