Music

Intent, Implementation and Impact of our Music Curriculum

Music Subject Leader- Catherine Naylor

Intent

At its core, our Music Curriculum aims to give our pupils knowledge and skills:

to know and understand how sounds are made and can be organised into musical structures
to listen to and appraise different types of music
to know how music is composed and written down
to know how different styles of music can be influenced by the time, place, people and purpose for which it was written

The teaching and musical experiences we provide at St Joseph’s also aim to inspire and delight children; to give them a life-long love of Music and an appreciation of its value on a both a personal and a wider community level.

Implementation

St Joseph’s uses the English National Curriculum and the New Model Music Curriculum as the basis for planning. A long term plan is in place which acknowledges the mixed-aged class structure of our school and ensures that the topics children study in Music build upon prior learning. Children learn to listen and appraise; compose and perform in timetabled Music lessons. A wide variety of resources are used; including Sing Up and Kapow. In class, all children sing weekly and they learn to play a tuned musical instrument at some point during KS2. Our classroom teaching is applied and enhanced outside the classroom- children take part in whole-school singing; they can choose to learn the guitar, keyboard or a woodwind instrument with our peripatetic teachers. Children have the opportunity to sing in our school choir or play in our recorder ensemble- rehearsing at lunchtimes and performing for the benefit of the wider community, for example, by singing carols in an old people’s home each year. We continue to seek opportunities for children to experience live music- bringing in visitors or taking groups to perform at events such as the ‘Pendle Festival’.

Impact

By the end of Year 6, we hope that children will be prepared for the academic rigour of the Music curriculum at KS3. Music enriches lives and has a positive effect on mental health and well-being; we want each and every one of our children go on to enjoy Music in as many ways as they choose- as a listener, a composer or a performer.

Music Long term Plan 2023-24 & 2024-25 Classes 1-2.pdf

Music Long term Plan 2023-24 & 2024-25 Classes 3-5.pdf

Music Progression Map May 2023.pdf

Lancashire Music Service

Some of our pupils who play piano, keyboard or clarinet have received certificates from Lancashire Music Service. Well done !

Three of our year 3 pupils received Level 1 keyboard certificates .

One our year 5 pupils received her level 3 clarinet certificate.

Ukulele lessons

Class 4 have been learning how to play the ukulele with Mr Cheetham from Fisher More.

Glockenspiels

With support from the Friends of St. Joseph's, the school has been able to purchase glockenspiels for use in music. The children have been having a wonderful time learning how to play these exciting new instruments.

St Joseph's Catholic Primary School