Intent
At Croft Church of England Primary School, we make Music an enjoyable learning experience for pupils and teachers. We encourage children to participate in a variety of musical experiences, developing a love of music and building up their confidence at the same time. Our teaching focuses on developing the children’s ability to sing in tune with others, play tuned and untuned musical instruments with increasing control and listen to and appraise a variety of music from different periods, genres, styles and traditions. As they move through the school, the children develop their understanding of pulse, rhythm, pitch, tempo, dynamics, timbre and how music is structured. They use this knowledge to compose and perform their own music in small groups
Implement
Music teaching at Croft Primary delivers the requirements of the National Curriculum through the use of the Oak National Academy scheme of work, specifically designed for the teaching of Music in primary schools. Music lessons are broken down into half-termly units and provide the children with the opportunities to review, remember and deepen their understanding in this subject. Alongside this, a weekly singing assembly allows the children the opportunity to develop their singing skills and perform a variety of songs together. For those children that are passionate about singing, they are able to develop their love of music further through an extracurricular singing club, which performs at Young Voices. Productions are also a key element of the music curriculum, with carol concert performances at the local church for the whole school , nativity productions for EYFS and key stage 1 and end of term productions for KS2.
Impact
At Croft, all children will participate in quality music sessions across the year and the impact of this will be seen across the school with an increase in the profile of music. The Oak Academy Scheme of Work has clear sequenced lesson objectives and outlines, along with the resources needed to teach them; this will enable all members of staff (including non-specialists) to deliver well-planned, quality lessons, with appropriate differentiation. Whole-school and parental engagement will be improved through performances and extracurricular activities and participation in music will develop the children’s wellbeing, promote listening and develop concentration.
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