Curriculum Intent

At Sheepy, we aim to deliver a high-quality music education, which should engage and inspire pupils to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians.

We explore music through the inter-related dimensions of music: performing, listening, composing, the history of music. We focus on developing the skills, knowledge and understanding that children need in order to become confident performers, composers, and listeners. Children will develop the musical skills of singing, playing tuned and un-tuned instruments, improvising and composing music, and listening and responding to music.

We use Music Express to support our teaching of music.  The scheme is carefully planned around a framework of spiral learning, and ambitious yet appropriate progression ensures that potential is continually developed, enriched and reinforced. In addition, in Year 3 or 4 pupils have the opportunity to learn an instrument as part of whole class tuition. This is led by Leicestershire Music Hub.

Our curriculum helps children gain skills which are vital to children’s development as learners and have a wider application in their general lives outside and beyond school.

Through realising this vision, we aim for children to develop transferable skills such as team-working, leadership, creative thinking, problem-solving, decision-making, and presentation and performance skills and to flourish as musicians.

Purpose of study

Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity. A high quality music education should 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. As pupils progress, they should develop a critical engagement with music, allowing them to compose, and to listen with discrimination to the best in the musical canon.

Aims

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.

Pupils have the opportunity to learn drums and piano through our external partnerships.