Music

Music at Ashurst wood

At Ashurst Wood, our Music curriculum intends to inspire creativity and self-expression as well as giving the children opportunities to connect with others.

Throughout their musical journey, we hope to foster a lifelong love of music by exposing them to diverse musical experiences and igniting a passion for music. By listening and responding to different musical styles the children will find their voices as singers and performers and as composers, which will enable them to become confident, reflective musicians.

The primary music national curriculum for Key Stages One and Two covers the following:

• Singing

• Playing tuned and untuned instruments

• Listening to recorded and live music

• Composing and improvising

• Understanding music history

• Understanding notation Teaching music in primary school requires facilitating children to “perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, musical genres, styles and traditions, including the works of the great composers and musicians.”

Music at Ashurst wood

To support our delivery of music we use KPOW resources. The KPOW resources cover a diverse range of music from different cultures. The learning of musical instruments is covered in lower KS2 and the teaching of musical notation is woven through the curriculum.

Technical Knowledge

Children explore how music is created using their voices and tuned and untuned percussion instruments.

Teachers ensure that all children develop their depth of understanding and progression of skills through the teaching of technical elements including pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and musical notation.

Appreciation

Children listen to a range of high quality live and recorded music to promote an appreciation of music across different genres, styles and traditions, including by great composers and musicians. Children learn to review their work and the work of others. In doing this, they broaden their experience of music from different cultures and historical periods, develop skills in understanding musical composition and extend their musical vocabulary.

An example of the music appreciation progression. (Y3)

Western Classical tradition and film Title

Hallelujah from Messiah Handel

Night on a Bare Mountain3 Mussorgsky

Jai Ho from Slumdog

Millionaire

Night Ferry

A. R. Rahman

Anna Clyne

Bolero Ravel

Ronda alla Turca Mozart

Mars from The Planets Holst