Music
Intent
Since our last inspection in November 2019, there has been much work done on the music curriculum at De Lucy. Where previously it was taught as part of a themed curriculum, this has been addressed and there is now in place a sequenced, progressive model that follows a discrete scheme. At De Lucy our intent is for all children to develop a lifelong love of music and to develop their talent as musicians. We fulfil the requirements of the National Curriculum for music through the Music Express scheme of work, which provides a broad and balanced curriculum, ensuring the progressive development of musical concepts, knowledge and skills. We seek to offer opportunities for children to: perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods and genres; to learn to sing and to use their voices, to create and compose music on their own and with others; have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument; use technology appropriately and have the opportunity to progress to the next level of musical excellence.
Implementation
In EYFS, children sing a range of well-known nursery rhymes and songs, perform songs, rhymes, poems and stories with others, and – when appropriate – try to move in time with music. In Key Stage 1 and 2, music is taught in weekly lessons. We follow the ‘Music Express’ scheme which has inbuilt progression, both within each year and from one year to the next, ensuring consistent musical development. The children learn about and explore how music is created, produced and communicated through use of pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations. It is a participatory and inclusive approach, where children actively listen, explore sounds, perform and compose; they learn to handle and play instruments to create and express their own and others’ music. The map below shows the units followed and the focus being studied.
Aut 1 |
Aut 2 |
Spr 1 |
Spr 2 |
Sum 1 |
Sum 2 |
|
Y1 |
Unit 1: Ourselves Exploring Sounds
Unit 2: Number Beat |
Unit 3: Animals Pitch
Unit 4: Weather Exploring Sounds |
Unit 5: Machines Beat
Unit 6: Seasons Pitch |
Unit 7: Our School Exploring Sounds
Unit 8: Pattern Beat |
Unit 9: Storytime Exploring Sounds.
Unit 10: Our bodies Beat |
Unit 11: Travel Performance
Unit 12: Water Pitch |
Y2 |
Unit 1: Ourselves Exploring Sounds
Unit 2: Toys Beat |
Unit 3: Our land Exploring Sounds
Unit 4: Our bodies Beat |
Unit 5: Animals Pitch
Unit 6: Number Beat |
Unit 7: Our School Exploring Sounds
Unit 8: Pattern Beat |
Unit 9: Storytime Exploring Sounds
Unit 10: Our bodies Beat |
Unit 11: Water Pitch
Unit 12: Travel Performance |
Y3 |
Unit 1: Environment Composition
Unit 2: Building Beat |
Unit 3: Sounds Exploring Sounds
Unit 4: Poetry Performance |
Unit 5: China Pitch
Unit 6: Time Beat |
Unit 7: In the past Pitch
Unit 8: Communication Composition |
Unit 9: Human body Structure
Unit 10: Singing French Pitch |
Unit 11: Ancient worlds Structure
Unit 12: Food and drink Performance |
Y4 |
Unit 1: Poetry Performance
Unit 2: Environment Composition |
Unit 3: Sounds Exploring Sounds
Unit 4: Recycling Structure |
Unit 5: Building Beat
Unit 6: Around the world Pitch |
Unit 7: Ancient worlds Structure
Unit 8: Singing Spanish Pitch |
Unit 9: Communication Composition
Unit 10: Time Beat |
Unit 11: In the past Notation
Unit 12: Food and drink Performance |
Y5 |
Unit 1: Our Community Performance |
Unit 2: Solar system Listening |
Unit 3: Life cycles Structure |
Unit 4: Keeping healthy Beat |
Unit 5: At the movies Composition |
Unit 6: Celebration Performance |
Y6 |
Unit 1 World unite Performance |
Unit 2 Journeys Song cycle Performance |
Unit 3 Growth Performance |
Unit 4 Roots - Mini musical Performance |
Unit 5 Class Awards show Performance |
Unit 6 Moving on Performance |
Impact
Children at De Lucy have access to a varied programme that allows them to discover areas of strength, as well as areas they can to improve upon. As the children progress, they develop a growing musical vocabulary that allows them to critically engage with music and increases their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement. We assess through teacher assessment at the end of each unit. Teachers make a judgement on the children’s progress against the learning outcomes for the unit followed; photographs and video are stored to capture progress throughout the year.
How parents can help
As music is part of everyday life for so many of us, helping your child at home is easy! Sing along to songs with your child; encourage them to listen to a wide genre of music from across the world. If you want to go further, help them compose, perform and evaluate their creations. All of these things help foster your child’s engagement and enjoyment of music.
Here are some useful links with many more ideas:
https://home-ed.info/heresources/music_resources
https://www.themusicstudio.ca/music-resources-for-parents.php
https://www.naeyc.org/our-work/families/playing-music-home
Partnership Links
The Greenwich Music Hub provides support with the teaching and leading of music. They share information on curriculum developments, best practice and activities and events the school can be involved in.
Policies
Subject leader
Ms Macauley
Page updated 3rd January 2021