Music

Intent

At Nutley CE Primary we hope to inspire a love of music, providing opportunities for the children to listen to, review and evaluate a wide range of compositions. We aim to develop the children as musicians themselves, providing opportunities to perform and compose music on their own and with others, increasing their self-confidence and creativity.

Implementation

Children learn music every term in a series of lessons. We use the ‘Bubbles’ scheme of work to deliver the music curriculum and teachers plan lessons using our progression map to ensure that children build on their skills and knowledge as they move through the school.

In our weekly singing worship, the children learn to sing and use their voices, often working towards a live performance event such as the Christingle and Easter services at the local church.

We also give the children to take part in a school choir where they work towards a performance such as singing at local events and places, such as the Nutley Christmas Market, or with other children at much larger venues, such as ‘One Voice’ at Glyndebourne.

While we give all children the opportunity to learn a musical instrument - the recorder - our children can also access private music tuition for a wide variety of instruments, such as drumming, flute, keyboard and violin.

Year 1 and 2:

use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes
play tuned and untuned instruments musically
listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music
experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music.

Year 3 and 4:

play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression
improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music
listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory
use and understand staff and other musical notations
appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians
develop an understanding of the history of music.

Year 5 and 6:

play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression
improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music
listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory
use and understand staff and other musical notations
appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians
develop an understanding of the history of music
prepare for their end of year performance.

Impact

At Nutley Church of England Primary, through exploration, our children develop an understanding of how music is created, produced and communicated, including through the inter-related dimensions: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations. Our children are ready to transition to secondary school with the knowledge, skills and confidence to not only create their own music, but to continue to further their interest and enjoyment in listening to and appraising a variety of music from around the world.

Click here to see our Progression Grid for Music.