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Music Introduction

Downshall Primary School follow the National Curriculum and adapt the planning and implementation to achieve the needs of the relevant cohort each year.

Using the four cornerstones pedagogy, first quality teaching ensures that the key skills and knowledge are taught memorably to enable learning to be transferred to long term memory.

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Subject Drivers

Whilst in school, children have opportunities to forge their own musical journey, which allows them to discover areas of strength, as well as areas they might like to improve upon. Music allows children to access their own fundamental abilities such as: achievement, self-confidence, interaction with and awareness of others, and self-reflection. Children develop in confidence as their skills improve. 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. Children are creative, independent, as well as demonstrate a sense of pride in their work. They recognise how to sensitively respond to others when offering evaluations of their work. Children are given the opportunity to participate in performances in front of an audience to show case their skills.

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.

Music is one of the seven areas of learning within the Early Years Foundation Stage. In this specific area of learning children explore their own imagination and creativity and learn how to create using different materials and tools.

Please see below table showing some of the prerequisite skills that children explore in the Early Years to help prepare them for the national curriculum:

Three and Four-Year-Olds

Reception

Early Learning Goal

Physical Development

• Use large-muscle movements to wave flags and streamers, paint and make marks.

• Use one-handed tools and equipment, for example, making snips in paper with scissors.

•Develop their small motor skills so that they can use a range of tools competently, safely and confidently.

• Use their core muscle strength to achieve a good posture when sitting at a table or sitting on the floor.

•Sing a range of well-known nursery rhymes and songs. · Perform songs, rhymes, poems and stories with others, and – when appropriate – try to move in time with music.

Music

• Shows interest, dances and sings to music rhymes and songs, imitating movements of others

• Begins to make believe by pretending using sounds, movements, words, objects Beginning to describe sounds and music imaginatively, e.g. scary music

• Creates rhythmic sounds and movements

• Experiments and creates movement in response to music, stories and ideas • Sings to self and makes up simple songs

Responds imaginatively to art works and objects, e.g. this music sounds likes dinosaurs, that sculpture is squishy like this [child physically demonstrates], that peg looks like a mouth

Units Covered Year 1 to Year 6

Autumn 1	African Drums
Autumn 2	Ukulele
Spring 1	Electric Drum
Spring 2	Singing
Summer 1	Song writing with Glockenspiel
Summer 2	Keyboard and Musical Theory

Quotes from children

‘Music is fun. I liked using my own instrument in the piece. It was amazing that we could play Ukelele’ (year 3)

‘Music is fun. It’s about understanding and learning and playing instruments’ Zara (Year4)

‘Music is loud because we all play together.’ ‘Music is good because it makes you feel like you’re in a different world’ Abubakar (year 5)

Enrichment

Year 4 attended the New Vision Trust Music Festival,

Year 6 – alternative opportunities eg History of Hip Hop, Electronic Dance Performance

Early Years Nursery Rhyme Week

Subject Displays

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