Our Music Curriculum
Intent
The National Curriculum for music aims to ensure that all pupils:
• Perform, listen to, review and evaluate music
• Be taught to sing, create and compose music
• Understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated.
At Kaizen Primary School the intention is that children gain a firm understanding of what music is through listening, singing, playing, evaluating, analysing, and composing across a wide variety of historical periods, styles, traditions, and musical genres. Our objective at Kaizen Primary School is to develop a curiosity for the subject, as well as an understanding and acceptance of the validity and importance of all types of music, and an unbiased respect for the role that music may wish to be expressed in any person’s life. We are committed to ensuring children understand the value and importance of music in the wider community, and are able to use their musical skills, knowledge, and experiences to involve themselves in music, in a variety of different contexts and cultures.
Implementation
This academic year our singing lessons for children will now be taking place remotely. Our professional singing coach will be leading singing lessons for KS1 and KS2. Byron Gold is able to structure lessons sequenced with the support of the music lead to ensure children are able to build upon vocal warm ups, exposure to rhythm exercises, rehearsals of songs that can be performed in class alongside the class teacher and additional adults. These lessons are uploaded and monitored weekly for children’s and families to join in from home. Children will still have opportunities to sing alongside inspirational artists as well as performing to parents and the community via video.
The music curriculum ensures students sing, listen, play, perform and evaluate. From the spring term music is taught in the classroom so that children are able to use some of the language of music to dissect it, and understand how it is made, played, appreciated and analysed. To do this we use Charanga as a scheme of work that provides a progression curriculum throughout the school. Children have music every lunch time as part of our play provision, which allows them to explore all musical genres linking this into dance and choreography.
Impact
The integral nature of music and the learner creates an enormously rich palette from which a student may access fundamental abilities such as: achievement, self-confidence, interaction with and awareness of others, and self-reflection. Music will also develop an understanding of culture and history, both in relation to students individually, as well as ethnicities from across the world. Children are able to enjoy music, in as many ways as they choose - either as listener, creator or performer. They can dissect music and comprehend its parts. They can sing and feel a pulse. They have an understanding of how to further develop skills less known to them, should they ever develop an interest in their lives.