Music

Throughout Key Stage 2 children will study the history of Western Music:

Year 3 - Medieval

Year 4 - Renaissance and Baroque

Year 5 - Classical and Romantic

Year 6 - 20th Century

At St Nicholas, we aim for every child to: -

Experience a high-quality music education which will engage and inspire them to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians
increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement through music
Perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions, including the works of the great composers and musicians
Sing and to use their voices
Create and compose music on their own and with others.
Play the keyboard using both melodies and chords
Play the ocarina in Key Stage 1
Follow standard music notation
Use Garage Band on the ipads to compose music
Have knowledge of specific musical vocabulary

Teaching and Learning

Songs and music are incorporated into the EYFS curriculum for Reception. They have a weekly music lesson where they learn the beginning of music making from a scheme adapted from Jolly Music.

This specially adapted scheme is then continued into Key Stage 1. The children are actively involved in singing, moving to music, listening and responding with movement and percussion. Key Stage 1 children all learn to play the ocarina.

Key Stage 2 all learn to play percussion instruments including Djembe and Samba instruments and the keyboard. They listen to music from a range of genres and cultures and learn the history of Western music.

As well as music lessons, each Key Stage has a sung worship session where they rehearse the worship songs sung in assemblies.

Surrey Arts teachers come into school to teach cello from Reception - Year 6 and drums, guitar, piano, flute and clarinet in Key Stage 2.

ASSESSMENT

We assess children's learning against the National Curriculum objectives.

Key stage 1

Pupils should be taught to:

use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes
play tuned and untuned instruments musically
listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music
experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music.

Key stage 2

Pupils should be taught to sing and play musically with increasing confidence and control. They should develop an understanding of musical composition, organising and manipulating ideas within musical structures and reproducing sounds from aural memory.

Pupils should be taught to:

play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression
improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music
listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory § use and understand staff and other musical notations § appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians
develop an understanding of the history of music.