Music
Music at St Mark’s
"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."
National Curriculum
Key concepts and big ideas
- Listen and Appraise
- Musical Activities include Games, Singing, Playing, Improvising and Composing
- Perform and Share
Intent
The teaching of Music at St Mark's aims to follow the specifications of the National Curriculum; providing a broad, balanced and differentiated curriculum and ensuring the progressive development of musical concepts, knowledge and skills. We believe that music plays and 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.
Implementation
We follow the national curriculum for Music and have created a whole school long term plan where progression of skills is carefully sequenced following the Scheme of Work. Each year group’s objectives are selected to build upon the learning that took place the previous year and continue to prepare them for the coming year too. The objectives are split into the seven strands of the national curriculum; Singing, Playing, Ensemble & Performing, Experimenting, Composing and Improvising, Listening, knowledge & understanding.
Teachers are not only aware of what they must teach but also of what the children already know and what they will need to know in the coming years. Music is taught as a discrete subject.
Impact
We measure the impact of our curriculum through the following methods:
Pupil discussions and interviewing the pupils about their learning (pupil voice).
Annual reporting and tracking of standards across the curriculum.
Photo and video evidence of the pupils' 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 music after school choir and uptake of additional music groups and 1:1 teaching.
How is the Music Scheme of work organised?
