Our Music
Intent
At Bentley New Village Primary School our intent is to provide the children to feel they are musical and to develop a long life love of music. We focus on developing skills, knowledge and understanding that children need to become confident performers, composers and listeners.
- We will give opportunities to perform.
- Understand how music can be written down to support performing and composing activities.
- Will have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument.
- Meet the key stage expectations set out in the national curriculum.
- Will be given opportunity to learn to sing and to use their voices,
- Will learn to create and compose music on their own and with others,
- be provided the use of technology appropriately and have the opportunity to progress to the next level of musical excellence
- Gain an 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.
Implementation
- Children can attend young voices yearly.
- Concerts are performed throughout the year
- Monitoring termly via music coordinator
- Yearly music day where children come to school dressed from a music decade or their favourite musician. Take part in different activities during the day.
- Music can be played to settle children in to school to create a calm working environment.
- EYFS sing transition times
- During timetable rock stars children have music playing.
- Children are taken to sing carols in the French gate centre .
- Guitars are taught weekly by an outside agency for year 4
- Learning history about music and different genres through music Monday.
Impact
- Meet the key stage expectations set out in the national curriculum.
- Pupils will be engaged and enjoycompositional performance and skills
- Enriched cultural capital
- Attainment of disadvantaged learners increases
- Pupil outcomes will show their learning
- SEND pupils are included
- music through weekly lessons,
- organised music experiences.( guitar lessons)
- children will become lifelong musicians
- they will enjoy learning a new skill
- pupils will appreciate how music makes them feel.
- Children will value music in their life
- Confidence in performing.