Curriculum – Music
At Lumley Junior School, we use the National Curriculum for Music as the basis of our Music programme.
The National Curriculum for Music aims 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 Lumley Juniors, we appreciate that music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity. We aim to engage and inspire pupils to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians, and so increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement.
Knowledge and Key Skills Progression Grids:
MUSIC – KS2 Knowledge and Key Skills Progression – updated September 2022
Implementation
We provide pupils with the opportunity to develop their creativity, musical skills and a passion for music through the Kapow Primary Music scheme, an integrated,
practical, exploratory and child-led approach to musical learning. Lessons are adapted where necessary to meet the needs of pupils including those with special educational needs and disabilities. Children use their voice, body and a range of musical instruments (both tuned and untuned) in their lessons.
Kapow Primary’s music scheme takes a holistic approach to music, in which the individual strands below are woven together to create engaging and enriching learning experience:
- Performing
- Listening
- Composing
- The history of music
- The inter-related dimensions of music
Impact
By the end of Key Stage Two most children will:
Listening
- Discuss musical eras in context, identifying how they have influenced each other, and discuss the impact of different composers on the development of musical styles.
- Represent changes in pitch, dynamics and texture using graphic notation, justifying choices with reference to musical vocabulary.
Composing
- Compose a multi-layered piece of music from a given stimulus with voices, bodies and instruments.
- Compose an original song, incorporating lyric writing, melody writing and the composition of accompanying features, within a given structure.
- Develop melodies using rhythmic variation, transposition and changes in dynamics, pitch and texture.
Performing
- Sing songs in two or more secure parts from memory, with accuracy, fluency, control and expression.
- Work as a group to perform a piece of music, adjusting the interrelated dimensions as required, keeping in time and communicating with the group.
- Perform a solo or take a leadership role within a performance.
- Perform by following a conductor’s cues and directions.
