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Music

Learning Journey

Current Music Provision
Aspect of music Content Continued support from Southampton Music Hub to ensure that the learning progressive and will build on prior knowledge.

Learning Question weeks

– 3 x 1 week blocked units a year with the exception of year 4 who do a two week block of instrument lessons

Starting point for years 3, 5 and 6 is soundscapes -Continued support from Southampton Music Hub to ensure that the learning progressive and will build on prior knowledge.

Music Assemblies

-Whole school

-Weekly

Singing lesson:

-Focus on using the voice as an instrument

-Includes a vocal warm up and learning a wide range of songs

Music appreciation:

-Listen to a piece of music from a wide range of times and places

-Explore the effect of the music on the listener

-Explore the musical dimensions (tempo, pitch, dynamics, structure, timbre, texture)

-Embed use of musical vocabulary

-Planning for music assemblies and record of music used

Choir

-30 minutes weekly

-Year 5 and 6

  • Warm up – more focused on technical singing
  • Songs learn mainly in unison, but moving to part singing

-Move to more part singing, ability to keep part and consistently sing in tune.

-Take part in massed choir events with the Music Hub, Platinum Jubilee Celebrations

Brass Tuition

-1 hour weekly after school

-Year 3,4,5 and 6

-20 pupils

-Tuition provided by a specialist teacher

-Care of instrument

-Technique for playing

-How to read music notation on a stave

– Tuition in
Enrichment opportunities

WNO

Theatre – WNO

Artsmark

Partnership with MAST

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