Music

Music

Freidriche Nietsche: “Without music, life would be a mistake.”

Within Music, we develop children’s understanding and experiences of music with the aim to inspire their curiosity about musical expression and creativity.

What Music looks like at Staverton

• Musical knowledge, understanding and skills provide the framework and approaches that enable children to explore the multiple dimensions of music.
• Teachers will use BBC Ten Pieces as the basis for developing an understanding of musical history music, knowledge and skills develop.
• Each year, the school welcomes musicians to perform in front of the children. They explain their journey into music and teach about their instrument.
• All children in Key Stage 2 have whole class instrument lessons as part of their curriculum music lessons.  In Year 3 and 4, they will learn recorder or glockenspiel and in Year 5 and 6, ukulele.
• All children attend a weekly music assembly where they listen attentively to a piece of music chosen from the Model Music Curriculum suggested list.  They are taught a variety of songs for performance in school events and simply for the enjoyment of singing.
• All children have the opportunity to perform during our Harvest Service, Christmas Carol Service, leavers performances.  The children [perform in school and at local care homes and churches.  We invite parents and carers and members of different schools/preschools in our community, for example, Silverwood School and Nestlings Preschool.

We are experts in Music because:

• We experiment, improvise and compose music for a range of purposes.
• We perform, listen to and talk about music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions.
• We understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated through developing an awareness of pitch, duration, rhythm, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and notation
• We have an awareness of a variety of instruments and the different sounds they make (timbre), through exploration and experimentation.
• We use and understand simple notations to communicate musical sounds to others and provide an understanding of the basics of standard notation.