Music
Subject Essence
Essence of Music: Ash Green believes music is a universal language, that allows creativity. Children are able to get critically involved without discrimination and compose their own styles of music.
What should we see the children doing?
- Perform, listen to, review and evaluate music
- Learn to sing, create and compose music, opportunity to learn a musical instrument
- Understand and explore how music is created
Curriculum Content and Progression
Scheme of learning:
At Ash Green we follow the National curriculum guidelines.
End of key stage 1
- Pupils should be taught to Use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes.
- Play tuned and un-tuned 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 interrelated dimensions of music.
End of key stage 2 Pupils should be taught to:
- Sing and play musically with increasing confidence and control.
- They should develop and understanding of musical composition, organising and manipulating ideas within musical structures and reproducing sounds from aural memory.
- 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 staff and other musical notations
- 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
Music Progression Document
Policies and Supporting Documents
Helpful Links and Ideas
Subject Leader Bio
My name is Karen Firkins and I am the music lead at Ash Green Primary. I am passionate about our music provision and I believe it plays a vital role in the overall development of students, nurturing creativity, discipline and emotional expression. Music not only enhances cognitive ability, memory, teamwork but emotional well- being as well. Our current program offers activities through singing, instrumental lessons and ensemble performances. This program also aims to cater for all varying levels of ability and interests from first time to more advanced students and their own individual pathway. Our team is dedicated to enriching the musical education of students by providing weekly music lessons within the school environment. We actively collaborate with the music services to ensure a diverse high quality learning experience and accomplishments of our learners. The progress and accomplishments of our learners, whether through collective performances or individual milestones, are regularly showcased and celebrated in school assemblies. These assemblies serve as an opportunity to highlight students hard work, foster their confidence and inspire a deeper appreciation for music amongst the entire school community.