INTENT
At Marsh Gibbon School we have adopted the Music scheme of work from Kapow.
The intention of the Kapow Primary Music Scheme is first and foremost to help children to feel that they are musical and to develop a life-long love of music. We focus on developing the skills, knowledge and understanding that children need in order to become confident performers, composers and listeners. Our curriculum introduces children to music form all around the world and across generations, teaching children to respect and appreciate the music of all traditions and communities.
Children will develop the musical skills of singing, playing tuned and un-tuned instruments, improvising and composing music, and listening and responding to music. They will develop and understanding of the history and cultural context of the music that they listen to and learn how music can be written down. Through music, our curriculum helps children develop transferable skills such as team-working, leadership, creative thinking, problem solving, decision-making, and presentation and performance skills. These skills are vital to children’s development as learners and have a wider application in their general lives outside and beyond school.
Kapow’s Primary Music Scheme of Work enables pupils to meet the end of key stage attainment targets outlined in the national curriculum and the aims of the scheme align with those in the national curriculum.
The scheme takes a holistic approach to music, in which the individual strands below are woven together to create engaging and enriching learning experiences:
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.
At Marsh Gibbon School we have adopted the Music scheme of work from Kapow.
The intention of the Kapow Primary Music Scheme is first and foremost to help children to feel that they are musical and to develop a life-long love of music. We focus on developing the skills, knowledge and understanding that children need in order to become confident performers, composers and listeners. Our curriculum introduces children to music form all around the world and across generations, teaching children to respect and appreciate the music of all traditions and communities.
Children will develop the musical skills of singing, playing tuned and un-tuned instruments, improvising and composing music, and listening and responding to music. They will develop and understanding of the history and cultural context of the music that they listen to and learn how music can be written down. Through music, our curriculum helps children develop transferable skills such as team-working, leadership, creative thinking, problem solving, decision-making, and presentation and performance skills. These skills are vital to children’s development as learners and have a wider application in their general lives outside and beyond school.
Kapow’s Primary Music Scheme of Work enables pupils to meet the end of key stage attainment targets outlined in the national curriculum and the aims of the scheme align with those in the national curriculum.
The scheme takes a holistic approach to music, in which the individual strands below are woven together to create engaging and enriching learning experiences:
- Performing
- Listening
- Composing
- The history of music
- The inter-related dimensions of music
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 Djemebe.
- Our Year 4 children learn to play the violin.
- Our Year 5 children learn to play the Ukulele.
- Our Year 6 children learn to play a brass instrument. (cornet or trumpet)
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.
