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Hutton Henry CofE Primary School

Hutton Henry, Hartlepool TS27 4RY

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Home / Our Curriculum / Curriculum Content / Curriculum – Music

Curriculum – Music

Music Long Term Plan
Music Progression Document

Intent

At Hutton Henry, we recognise that music surrounds children’s everyday lives through television, radio, computer games and shopping centres. We want to build upon their experiences and use music to promote their self- confidence, creativity, their sense of achievement and an opportunity to work together. We believe that high quality music education should engage and inspire all children to develop their love of music and their talent as musicians. We aim to foster our children’s enthusiasm for the subject, while also giving them the skills, knowledge and understanding necessary to support their continued musical journey in and beyond the primary school.

We appreciate that there is a strong link between music and other areas of learning. Learning to sing help develop the physical skills of the child and help with language development, co-ordination and breathing techniques. It helps support the development of communication skills and effective teamwork and offers a sense of achievement and confidence.

Implementation

Music across the school is delivered by teaching staff who are all non-specialists in teaching music. We use a music scheme based on the Oak National Academy scheme of work which supports all of the requirements of the National Curriculum and gives children access to a wide range of musical concepts and experiences. Staff  are also encouraged to include their own ideas to create stimulating and engaging lessons for our children.

Children in Year 3 and 4  participate in County Durham’s Wider Opportunities Programme delivered by a peripatetic music teacher. The children all learn to play the recorder. In Year 5 they will also be offered the opportunity to play a woodwind instrument. This tuition is delivered by a peripatetic music teacher.

By the end of Key Stage 2 the children will have had opportunities to play and perform using their voices and musical instruments with increased accuracy, fluency, control and expression. They will be to improvise and compose music for a rage of purposes and use staff and musical notation accurately. Opportunities to listen to a range of music from different traditions, genres and from the great composers and musicians. Through these opportunities the children will begin to develop and understanding of musical history.

There is a singing in praise collective worship every week. They are led by a teacher, who is a non-specialist, and are an opportunity for the children to learn and perform a range of songs for enjoyment.

Impact

Children will:

  • enjoy and appreciate a wide variety of musical styles;
  • explore how sounds are made, and how music is produced by a variety of instruments;
  • develop imagination and creativity;
  • build a sense of pulse and rhythm;
  • understand a range of musical vocabulary;
  • develop the interrelated skills of composition, improvisation, performance and appreciation;
  • enjoy a wide range of songs and sing in tune;
  • develop positive attitudes and to experience success and satisfaction in music.

Children demonstrate their ability in music in a variety of different ways. Teachers will assess children’s work in music by making informal judgements as they observe them during lessons. Older and more able pupils are encouraged to make judgements about how they can improve their own work. Each term, the teacher makes a judgement as to whether each child is working at the expected standard for their year group.

Peterlee Partnership Teaching School Alliance

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Hartlepool

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