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.
School’s intention is to help children to feel that they are musical, and to develop a life-long love of music. Each class teacher uses the Charanga Music scheme and adapts it to ensure every child can access and enjoy music within school. This is an overview of the units that our children study within the Charanga scheme:
School focuses on developing the skills, knowledge and understanding that children need in order to become confident performers, composers, and listeners. Through the curriculum, children develop the musical skills of listening and responding to music, singing, playing tuned and un-tuned instruments and improvising and composing.
A copy of Victoria Lane Academy’s music development plan can be found here.
