Music for every child
Every child at Newchurch, St. Mary's Primary School engages in quality music education from their entry into Reception until the end of KS2 in Year 6. In the early Years, music is incorporated consistently into daily routines and is used to enhance teaching of the core curriculum in addition to being taught as a stand-alone subject. In KS1 and KS2 pupils participate in weekly one hour curriculum music lesson with a teacher.
Rationale
At Newchurch St. Mary's , we follow the music programme of study outlined in the National Curriculum, supported by the resources and online platform of Charanga.https://charanga.com/site/musical-school/
The aim of our curriculum is to ensure 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.