Music
Intent
Our music curriculum at King’s Oak Primary focuses on making music an enjoyable learning experience for all students. We encourage children to participate in a variety of musical experiences through which we aim to build up the confidence of all children and strive for excellence in their understanding and appreciation of music.
We have a carefully planned curriculum in music which covers the full breadth of the National Curriculum. Learning is progressive and links are made to support children knowing and remembering more. This helps them for the next stage of their learning and education.
Whilst in school, children have access to a varied programme, which allows students to discover areas of strength, as all as areas they may like to aspire to and improve upon. Our teaching focuses on developing the children’s ability to understand rhythm and follow a beat. Through singing songs, children learn about the structure and organisation of music. We teach them to listen and appreciate different forms of music and develop an understanding of culture and history, both in relation to students individually, as well as ethnicities from across the world, which in turn develops their citizenship. Furthermore, children will develop descriptive language skills in music lessons when learning about how music can represent different feelings, emotions and narratives. We also teach technical vocabulary such as volume, pitch, beat and rhythm to discuss music using these terms.
Our music curriculum enables children to enjoy music, in as many ways as they choose - either as a listener, creator or performer from Nursery to Year 6.
As a result of this, children will
- use their voices expressively and creatively, to have the opportunity to learn songs and to sing solo and in ensemble context.
- play tuned and untuned instruments musically with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression
- listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians.
- experiment with, create, select and combine sounds, improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music
- develop an understanding of musical composition, organising and manipulating ideas within musical structures and reproducing sounds from aural memory.
- be encouraged to critically evaluate their own work and that of others in order to learn from their experiences.
