Music
OUR Music Curriculum
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At Olveston CEVC Primary School, we value Music as a significant part of the curriculum to stimulate creativity and extend a range of skills. Pupils will experience a range of music to help develop their musical abilities and musical appreciation. Through our Music curriculum, pupils should be inspired by a range of music and experiences of different instruments to become the best musicians they can be. As pupils progress, they should be able to think critically to evaluate their performances and the performances of others. There should be clear evidence of progression through the year groups in the form of recordings and performances. We believe that helping children develop their musical skills as will increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement as well as a life-long appreciation for music. We believe our Music curriculum is ambitious and exciting!
The Olveston Music Curriculum has three over-arching and interdependent aims:
- Children develop the ‘technical’ proficiency that enables them to translate their ideas successfully into sound. This includes the ability the use of instrumental playing, singing and music technology.
- Children will develop knowledge of how musical components come together both analytically and in the creative process – ‘Constructive’ elements of music.
- Children will be able to ‘express’ themselves through music and make meaningful connections to how music makes us, and others, feel.
What does this look like in the long term?
- When composing, children will use a range of musical skills including rhythm, beat, pitch, structure and notation to produce their own compositions using their voices, tuned and untuned instruments, both in groups and as individuals.
- To demonstrate technical proficiency, children will be able to play or sing short pieces of music accurately and with expression.
- Pupils will be able to express emotion through performing and composing music to demonstrate their expressive intention.
- As children develop their procedural knowledge they will become more competent in playing musical instruments and singing accurately and with control of pitch, rhythm, pulse, and movement.
