Music & The Arts

Welcome to the Music & The Arts Page

The National Curriculum splits Music into different strands, including: listening skills, playing tuned and untuned instruments, singing, music history, and composition.

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.

The national curriculum for speaking and listening aims to ensure that all pupils:

 listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers

 ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge

 use relevant strategies to build their vocabulary

 articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions

 give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes, including for expressing feelings

 maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations, staying on topic and initiating and responding to comments

 use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas

 speak audibly and fluently with an increasing command of Standard English

 participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debates

 gain, maintain and monitor the interest of the listener(s)

 consider and evaluate different viewpoints, attending to and building on the contributions of others

 select and use appropriate registers for effective communication.

Early Years Foundation Stage:

Within the EYFS, children participate in regular music, expressive arts and drama opportunities. The EYFS Learning Goals which link with music and drama, include:

* To sing a few familiar songs.

• To imitate movement in response to music.

• To tap out simple repeated rhythms.

• To explore and learn how sounds can be changed. 

* To develop a preference for forms of expression.

• To notice what adults do, imitating what is observed and then doing it spontaneously when the adult is not there.

• To sing to self and make up simple songs.

• To make up rhythms.

• To capture experiences and responses with a range of media, such as music, dance and paint and other materials or words 

* To begin to build a repertoire of songs and dances.

• To explore the different sounds of instruments.

Musical & The Arts Opportunities:

In addition to Music being taught as a curriculum subject, there are many opportunities and enrichments for children, including:  

• Choir and performing arts clubs 

• Dance festivals and performances at the local theatre

• Infant and Junior voice festivals and performances at the local theatre  

• 1:1 music tuition by a pediatric music teacher 

• Visits to the theatre 

• Visiting music workshops and roadshows 

• Key Stage Christmas performances  

• Whole class musical instrument teaching 

• Dance workshops and enrichment events

• Weekly, whole school singing assemblies