Music

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Our Music Curriculum

Our Music Curriculum Aims:

· To give children the opportunity to perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions, including the works of the great composers and musicians.

· To teach children 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.

· To enable children to understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated, including through the inter-related dimensions: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations.

Our Sequenced Music Curriculum

Lower School (Years 1 and 2)
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Middle School (Years 3 and 4)
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Upper School (Years 5 and 6)
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Our Music Knowledge Organisers

We have developed Knowledge Organisers (KO) because research shows that our brains remember things more efficiently when we know the ‘bigger picture’ in a topic or subject area and can see the way that areas of knowledge within that subject area link, forming schemata. Making links, essentially, helps information move into our long-term memory. Regular retrieval of knowledge in the classroom and at home using our Knowledge Organisers helps us remember more effectively, helping us store knowledge in, and recall it from, the long-term memory, freeing up space in the working memory to take on new knowledge. Knowledge Organisers enable teachers to ensure that key information is taught over a sequence of lessons, assessing knowledge-based outcomes.