Music
Vision and Principle
Children use music to help maintain emotional and social well-being and celebrate culture and community in ways which involve entertaining or understanding themselves and making sense of the world around them. Children should develop their understanding, make musical judgements, apply their new learning, develop their aural memory, express themselves physically, emotionally and through discussion and create their own musical ideas.
Music is all around us. Is it the soundtrack to our lives? Music connects us through people and places in our ever-changing word. It is creative, collaborative, celebratory and challenging. In our schools, music can bring communities together through the shared endeavour of whole-school singing, ensemble playing, experimenting with the creative process and, through the love of listening to friends and fellow pupils, performing. The sheer joy of music can feed the soul of a school community, enriching each student while strengthening the shared bonds of support and trust which make a great school. ‘The Power of Music – Model Music Curriculum’
Intent
Our intention for music at Rosemellin is to provide children with the opportunities to express themselves through music and have an awareness of music around the world. Through an exciting and progressive scheme of learning (Charanga), the children will develop an understanding of the history of music, genres, styles, traditions, music across a range of historical periods and work of famous composers and musicians.
Music promotes diversity and is a great tool to help express personal, emotional, social and cultural identity, which in turn helps raise awareness of the world around them. Children will become musicians who are able to create and perform their musical knowledge and share enjoyment in this experience with their peers.
We believe in the importance of music being all around us, and that Rosemellin children will receive the best learning through practical experiences where they can freely explore a variety of instruments and styles of music. Our music curriculum will provide opportunities to develop individuals as performers, song makers, composers, improvisers and listeners.
Music Curriculum Overview
| Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | Year 4 | Year 5 | Year 6 | |
| Aims: | KS1 curriculum aims
· Use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes; · Play tuned and untuned instruments; · Listen to a range of high-quality live/recorded music; · Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds. |
KS2 curriculum aims
· Play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression; · Improvise and compose music; · Listen to music and recall sounds with increasing aural memory; · Understand and use musical notations; · Appreciate and understand music draw from different traditions and from great composers/musicians; · Develop an understanding of the history of music. |
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| Autumn1 | Where in the world am I?
Unit 1 Ourselves Musical focus: Exploring sounds
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A world of water
Book 6-7years out of stock. Temporary guide: Unit 12 Water (from yr1 scheme) Musical focus: Pitch |
Surviving the Sahara
Unit 1 Environment Musical focus: Composition |
Rainforests
Unit 4 Recycling Musical focus: Structure |
Energy and sustainability
Unit 5 At The Movies Musical focus: Composition |
Where did the ice go?
Unit 1 World Unite Musical focus: Step dance performance |
| Autumn 2 | Dinosaur Discovery
Unit 3 Animals Musical focus: Pitch |
Great explorers
Book 6-7years out of stock. Temporary guide: Unit 1 Environment (from yr3 scheme) Use small steps to link to topic Musical focus: Composition
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Howard Carter and Ancient Egypt
Unit 11 Ancient Worlds Musical focus: Structure |
Marvellous Mayans
Unit 8 Singing Spanish Musical focus: Pitch |
Battle of Britain
Unit 5 At The Movies Musical focus: Composition |
Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration
Unit 1 World Unite Musical focus: Step dance performance |
| Spring 1 | Celebrating Cornwall
Unit 11 Travel Musical focus: Performance |
An island home
tbc |
North America
Unit 12 Food and Drink Musical focus: Performance |
London our capital
Unit 5 Building Musical focus: Beat
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Galapagos
Unit 4 Keeping Healthy Musical focus: Beat |
Sustaining our planet
Unit 2 Solar System (from Yr5 scheme) Musical focus: Listening
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| Spring 2 | Kings, Queens and Cornish Saints
Unit 10 Our Bodies Musical focus: Beat
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Disaster at sea
tbc |
Stone Age to Iron Age
Unit 7 In the past Musical focus: Pitch |
Vikings and Anglo-Saxons
Unit 3 Sounds Musical focus: Exploring sounds |
Atlantic Slave Trade
Unit 4 Keeping Healthy Musical focus: Beat |
An Gof
Unit 2 Solar System (from Yr5 scheme) Musical focus: Listening
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| Summer 1 | Wonderful Weather
Unit 6 Seasons Musical focus: Pitch |
Does it snow in Africa?
tbc |
Forests, people and change
Unit 3 Sounds Musical focus: exploring sounds |
Rivers and the water cycle
Unit 2 Environment Musical focus: Composition |
Lands of Fire and Ice
Unit 1 Our community Musical focus: Performance *First Access guitar lessons* |
Get to know Greece
Unit 5 Class Awards Musical focus: Awards show performance (first 3 sessions)
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| Summer 2 | Seaside detectives
Unit 5 Machines Musical focus: Beat |
Cornwall’s tropical gardens
tbc |
What did the Romans do for us?
Unit 2 Building Musical focus: Beat
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Shipping, Trade and Traders
Unit 11 In The Past Musical focus: Notation |
Cousin Jack (local history)
Unit 1 Our community Musical focus: Performance *First Access guitar lessons* |
Ancient Greece
BBC Ancient Greece resource Musical focus: Listening, Performance, Composition
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