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Music

At Lugwardine, our aim is to develop a love and appreciation of music where pupils have the confidence, knowledge and skills to experiment with composition and performance. Music plays a big part in the life of our school and can be heard in all classes. We aim to help children to understand the value and importance of music in the wider community and to ensure that they can use their musical skills, knowledge and experiences to involve themselves in music in a variety of contexts.

What Music looks like in our school:

  • Teachers follow the Long-Term Plan ensuring they cater for all abilities.
  • All members of staff are committed to using the Charanga scheme of work in order to help children to gain a deep-rooted love of music, including reading notation in KS2.
  • Lessons will be fun and engaging, developing pupils’ confidence to experiment musically.
  • Fundamental skills in singing, playing instruments, listening and creating music will be taught, progressing onto composition and the history of music.
  • Opportunities will be given for pupils to compose and perform.
  • Children will have a love and appreciation of music that they are confident to talk about.

End of EYFS:

  • Children sing songs, make music and dance, and experiment with ways of changing them.
  • They represent their own ideas, thoughts and feelings through, art, music, dance, role play and stories.

End of KS1

  • Be able to 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.
  • Can experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music.

End of KS2:

  • 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.