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 (National Curriculum document 2014).
At St. Mary’s we will use the excellent resources of the Charanga School of music to help develop pupils’ musical abilities.
Reception music – Summary of learning:
Musical learning focus for Terms 1 and 2: listening and responding to different styles ofmusic, embedding foundations of the interrelated dimensions of music; listening to, learning to sing or sing along with nursery rhymes and action songs; improvising leading to playing classroom instruments; share and perform the learning that has taken place.
Cross-curricular/topic-based focus: Me! – explore - growing, homes, colour, toys, how I look.
Cross-curricular and topic-based focus: My Stories – explore -using your imagination; Christmas, Festivals, Fairies, Pirates, Treasure, Superheroes, Let’s pretend, Once upon a Time.
Cross-curricular and topic-based focus: Everyone! – explore - family, friends, people and music from around the world.
Cross-curricular and topic-based focus: Our World – explore - animals, jungle, minibeasts, night and day, sand and water, seaside, seasons, weather, sea, space.
Musical learning focus for Term 3:
Big Bear Funk – A Transition Unit:
1. Listen and Appraise
2.Musical Activities – learn about the interrelated dimensions of music through singing, improvising and playing classroom instruments.
Reflect, Rewind and Replay: consolidation of learning and contextualising the history of music.