MUSIC at Marsh Gibbon CE School
INTENT
‘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. As pupils progress, they should develop a critical engagement with music, allowing them to compose, and to listen with discrimination to the best in the musical canon.’ National Curriculum 2014
At Marsh Gibbon CE School we understand the importance the exposure of music plays in our lives both as a listener and a musician. We want to, therefore, support our children to be passionate, creative and curious appreciators of music and its valuable impact on their lives.
With this in mind, our children experience a broad and balanced curriculum that deepens their musical knowledge, skills and well-being.
Our children will:
IMPLEMENTATION
IMPACT
At Marsh Gibbon CE School we are very proud of our outstanding musical activities. All children are taught by a specialist Music teacher each week.
All Key Stage 2 pupils learn about notation as part of their weekly music lesson provided by the Buckinghamshire Music Trust.
Singing
Singing is a wonderful and important part of the life of our school and our children sing with joy and enthusiasm during Collective Worship and in music lessons. In lessons pupils enjoy using a range of percussion instruments to compose, play and perform in groups and as a class. We have an amazing collection of high quality instruments including enough djembe drums, glockenspiels and xylophones, ukuleles, recorders and hand held percussion for a whole class to play together.
They use their voices and play musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control. All pupils are given the opportunity to perform in concerts, church services and class showcase assemblies.
‘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. As pupils progress, they should develop a critical engagement with music, allowing them to compose, and to listen with discrimination to the best in the musical canon.’ National Curriculum 2014
At Marsh Gibbon CE School we understand the importance the exposure of music plays in our lives both as a listener and a musician. We want to, therefore, support our children to be passionate, creative and curious appreciators of music and its valuable impact on their lives.
With this in mind, our children experience a broad and balanced curriculum that deepens their musical knowledge, skills and well-being.
Our children will:
- Learn to sing and to use their voices to create and compose music on their own and with others.
- Understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated.
- Perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions.
IMPLEMENTATION
- We have a comprehensive music curriculum that has a clear progression of knowledge and skills. Music is implemented in our curriculum in a variety of ways:Music appreciation and performance is included within many of our whole school daily, weekly and yearly practices.
- Our children will share songs, performances and music experiences within our Collective Worship, classroom environments, mindfulness sessions and specialist whole class instrument lessons for our Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 & Year 6 children.
- We also strive to include additional musical experiences through our school choir. The school choir will sing at the annual Young Voices Concert, Sing for the elderly community in the village, sing at the Church village fete and also whole school events such as the Christmas Fayre and Summer Fayre.
IMPACT
At Marsh Gibbon CE School we are very proud of our outstanding musical activities. All children are taught by a specialist Music teacher each week.
All Key Stage 2 pupils learn about notation as part of their weekly music lesson provided by the Buckinghamshire Music Trust.
- Our Year 3 children learn to play the Djembe.
- Our Year 4 children learn to play the recorder.
- Our Year 5 children learn to play the Ukulele.
- Our Year 6 children learn to play a brass instrument. (cornet, trumpet or trombone)
Singing
Singing is a wonderful and important part of the life of our school and our children sing with joy and enthusiasm during Collective Worship and in music lessons. In lessons pupils enjoy using a range of percussion instruments to compose, play and perform in groups and as a class. We have an amazing collection of high quality instruments including enough djembe drums, glockenspiels and xylophones, ukuleles, recorders and hand held percussion for a whole class to play together.
They use their voices and play musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control. All pupils are given the opportunity to perform in concerts, church services and class showcase assemblies.
