Intent
At Wroxton, we see music as a rich and necessary part of every child’s learning journey. It is a unique form of communication capable of impacting the way children feel, think and express themselves. Our children draw on their own cultural musical heritage alongside a diverse music curriculum to ignite a passion for learning and create rich experiences and memories.
Children will develop the musical skills of singing, playing tuned and untuned instruments, improvising and composing music, and listening and responding to music. They will develop an understanding of the history and cultural context of the music that they listen to, and learn how music can be written down. Through music, our curriculum helps children develop transferable skills such as collaborating with others both within our school and in our local community, leadership, creative thinking, problem solving, decision making, and presentation and performance skills. These skills are aligned to our vision ‘Learning, Transforming, Growing’ and have a wider application in their general lives outside and beyond school. It is important to us that our children see the connection and integration between music and other arts.
Every child who attends Wroxton will learn to play a brass instrument, read musical notation and play in a musical ensemble while in Key Stage Two. Alongside the National Curriculum and Early Years Framework, we use music to support mental health and wellbeing with the aim of every child exploring their own emotional responses to music and how this can help them regulate in school and at home. We want every child to feel that they are musical and develop a life-long love of music.
Wroxton Primary School uses the National Curriculum which has three aims for music.
Aims
We work in close partnership with the Oxfordshire County Music Service and other schools in ODST to broaden our children’s musical experiences in a range of ways.
At Wroxton, we see music as a rich and necessary part of every child’s learning journey. It is a unique form of communication capable of impacting the way children feel, think and express themselves. Our children draw on their own cultural musical heritage alongside a diverse music curriculum to ignite a passion for learning and create rich experiences and memories.
Children will develop the musical skills of singing, playing tuned and untuned instruments, improvising and composing music, and listening and responding to music. They will develop an understanding of the history and cultural context of the music that they listen to, and learn how music can be written down. Through music, our curriculum helps children develop transferable skills such as collaborating with others both within our school and in our local community, leadership, creative thinking, problem solving, decision making, and presentation and performance skills. These skills are aligned to our vision ‘Learning, Transforming, Growing’ and have a wider application in their general lives outside and beyond school. It is important to us that our children see the connection and integration between music and other arts.
Every child who attends Wroxton will learn to play a brass instrument, read musical notation and play in a musical ensemble while in Key Stage Two. Alongside the National Curriculum and Early Years Framework, we use music to support mental health and wellbeing with the aim of every child exploring their own emotional responses to music and how this can help them regulate in school and at home. We want every child to feel that they are musical and develop a life-long love of music.
Wroxton Primary School uses the National Curriculum which has three aims for music.
Aims
- 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 interrelated dimensions: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations.
We work in close partnership with the Oxfordshire County Music Service and other schools in ODST to broaden our children’s musical experiences in a range of ways.
Implementation
Wroxton use a range of resources to support the teaching of music via discrete music lessons alongside weaving music into the fabric of school life. The Kapow Primary music scheme introduces children to music from all around the world and across generations, teaching children to respect and appreciate the music of all traditions and communities.
Our annual curriculum music map identifies how each strand of music is being taught that year through our termly projects and dedicated brass lessons.
Our whole school community participates in collective singing worship every week with a dedicated music specialist who also works with individual year groups on a termly rotation.
We commission the Music for Wellbeing project to work with individual children facing a range of challenges to develop confidence, collaborative skills and engage with an alternative world of learning.
Our children present a range of performances to each other and families both in church, at school and other venues for celebrations and end of term events. These include songs, poetry, rap and instrumental performances, as well as the other arts through the integration of sculpture, art, design and dance.
We take our children to see a rich range of musical performances at different venues, showcasing diverse performers.
Assessment
When using a Kapow scheme of work, teachers will make use of the unit outcomes to identify what the expectations are for children. Over time, teachers will make use of observations, questioning, video and audio recordings to inform assessment and monitor progress.
Teachers will make digital and floorbook collections of children’s responses to music and examples of their performances, and this will be added to as they progress through school.
Wroxton use a range of resources to support the teaching of music via discrete music lessons alongside weaving music into the fabric of school life. The Kapow Primary music scheme introduces children to music from all around the world and across generations, teaching children to respect and appreciate the music of all traditions and communities.
Our annual curriculum music map identifies how each strand of music is being taught that year through our termly projects and dedicated brass lessons.
Our whole school community participates in collective singing worship every week with a dedicated music specialist who also works with individual year groups on a termly rotation.
We commission the Music for Wellbeing project to work with individual children facing a range of challenges to develop confidence, collaborative skills and engage with an alternative world of learning.
Our children present a range of performances to each other and families both in church, at school and other venues for celebrations and end of term events. These include songs, poetry, rap and instrumental performances, as well as the other arts through the integration of sculpture, art, design and dance.
We take our children to see a rich range of musical performances at different venues, showcasing diverse performers.
Assessment
When using a Kapow scheme of work, teachers will make use of the unit outcomes to identify what the expectations are for children. Over time, teachers will make use of observations, questioning, video and audio recordings to inform assessment and monitor progress.
Teachers will make digital and floorbook collections of children’s responses to music and examples of their performances, and this will be added to as they progress through school.
Impact
Our music curriculum will engage and inspire children to develop a deep love of music. Children will learn that music links closely to their emotions and can assist them in regulating these. They will understand the role that music plays in feeling part of a community and links them to their cultural identity.
Our curriculum not only sees music in its discrete form, but as something that enriches other curriculum areas. We endeavour to enhance each child’s confidence and collaborative interpersonal skills through listening, singing, composing and performing, as well as providing them with the musical language to respond to the technical elements of music.
Our music curriculum will engage and inspire children to develop a deep love of music. Children will learn that music links closely to their emotions and can assist them in regulating these. They will understand the role that music plays in feeling part of a community and links them to their cultural identity.
Our curriculum not only sees music in its discrete form, but as something that enriches other curriculum areas. We endeavour to enhance each child’s confidence and collaborative interpersonal skills through listening, singing, composing and performing, as well as providing them with the musical language to respond to the technical elements of music.
