MERSEY DRIVE COMMUNITY PRIMARY SCHOOL
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Mersey Drive, Whitefield, Manchester, M45 8LN
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Music

The teaching of music at Mersey Drive is underpinned by the National Curriculum and Early Years Statutory Framework.

 

EYFS Statutory Framework

The development of children’s artistic and cultural awareness supports their imagination and creativity. It is important that children have regular opportunities to engage with the arts, enabling them to explore and play with a wide range of media and materials. The quality and variety of what children see, hear and participate in is crucial for developing their understanding, self-expression, vocabulary and ability to communicate through the arts. The frequency, repetition and depth of their experiences are fundamental to their progress in interpreting and appreciating what they hear, respond to and observe.

 

Children will:

 

  • Sing a range of well-known nursery rhymes and songs.

  • Perform songs, rhymes, poems and stories with others, and – when appropriate – try to move in time with music.

The Early Years Statutory Framework can be found HERE

 

National Curriculum

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.

 

Key Stage 1

Pupils should be taught 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

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

 

Key Stage 2

Pupils should be taught to sing and play musically with increasing confidence and control. They should develop an understanding of musical composition, organising and manipulating ideas within musical structures and reproducing sounds from aural memory.

Pupils should be taught to:

    • 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.

 

 

 

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The Charanga Model Music Curriculum

At Mersey Drive, we use the Charanga Model Music Curriculum scheme to deliver our music teaching. Children participate in weekly music lessons in class. In Upper Key Stage 2, music teaching is supplemented by Bury Music Service.

 

Charanga’s English Model Music Curriculum Scheme is aligned with the National Curriculum for Music and the non-statutory Model Music Curriculum (MMC) Guidance published by the DfE in 2021.

 

"Our Scheme follows a spiral approach to musical learning, with children revisiting, building and extending their knowledge and skills incrementally. In this manner, their learning is consolidated and augmented, increasing musical confidence and enabling them to go further." -Charanga

 

Charanga Model Music Curriculum Long Term Overview