Music

We are an inclusive school, and strive to ensure our curriculum is accessible to all. Learning is a right and must meet the needs of each pupil. The pupils who have been identified as having a SEND need, will be planned for appropriately by the class teacher under the guidance and advice of the SENCo and/or additional agencies. Dependent on the pupil’s need, this may be through adult support, scaffolds or differentiated tasks. In cases where a pupil has an EHCP, bespoke provision is provided, appropriate to the needs of the pupil.

Our children enjoy and value Music at Timbertree. Children understand and appreciate the value of music in the context of their personal wellbeing and the creative and cultural industries and their many career opportunities. Progress in Music is demonstrated through regularly reviewing and scrutinising children’s work, in accordance with our Curriculum Assessment Framework to ensure that progression of skills is taking place. Namely through:

• Looking at pupils’ recordings, especially over time as they gain skills and knowledge
• Observing how they perform in lessons
• Talking to them about what they know

The Music curriculum will contribute to children’s personal development in creativity, independence, judgement and self-reflection. This would be seen in them being able to talk confidently about their work, and sharing their work with others. Progress will be shown through outcomes and through the important record of the process leading to them.

The national curriculum for Music aims to ensure that all pupils:

In Key Stage 1:    

• 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

In Key Stage 2:

• 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 interrelated dimensions of music
• Listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory. 
• Use and understand the stave and other musical notations. The musical elements of pitch, duration, tempo, dynamics, timbre, texture and structure are progressively introduced
• 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