Music
Intent
Our curriculum provides the children with opportunities to make music, play and perform with instruments and to begin to understand music theory.
In keeping with the 2014 National Curriculum, our class music lessons aim to ensure that all pupils:
- 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.
- learn to sing and to use their voices, to create and compose music on their own and with others.
- have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument, use technology appropriately and have the opportunity to progress to the next level of musical excellence
- understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated, including through the inter-related dimensions: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations.
At Pratts Bottom Primary School, pupils are taught to sing and play musically with increasing confidence and control. They 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.
Implementation
At Pratts Bottom we are very fortunate to have a specialist music teacher teach our weekly music sessions. The objectives and vertical progression in each discipline is deliberately woven into the each session so that pupils revisit key concepts throughout their primary journey at increasing degrees of challenge and complexity. Every child at Pratts Bottom has the opportunity to to learn how to play a musical instrument these are:
In Year 1 and 2 the African Djembe
In Year 3 and 4 the Recorder
In Year 5 and 6 the Ukulele
Our children regularly perform to their peers and teachers and during the summer term have the opportunity to perform to their parents.
All pupils will have the opportunity to take part in school performances during their time at PBPS.
- EYFS and Key Stage One perform in our traditional Christmas Nativity
- Key Stage Two perform in our Christmas Carol concert
- Upper Key Stage Two Pupils also perform in our Summer Show.