At Hallow School, we teach music as a discrete subject but it is also a large part of our daily lives - our regular daily and weekly collective worship will always include music and singing.
Our Music Room, holds a wonderful selection of musical instruments and is used by a variety of peripatetic music tutors for weekly lessons - guitar, drum and piano lessons are particularly popular!
We use the Kapow scheme of work to support our teaching of music across the school.
Music at Hallow
Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them – a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement.”
Gerald Ford
Intent
Our music curriculum aims to ensure that all pupils perform, listen to and evaluate a comprehensive range of music. Through this curriculum, children will understand how music is created, produced and communicated with ongoing emphasis on the inter-related dimensions of music: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations.
Implementation
As part of our planning process teachers refer to the following documents:
- National Curriculum
- Hallow Progression grids
- Hallow Long-term and medium-term plan
Music teaching at Hallow delivers the requirements of the National Curriculum through use of the Kapow scheme of work. Music lessons are broken down into half-termly units and an emphasis is placed on musical vocabulary, allowing children to talk about pieces of music using the correct terminology.
Each unit of work has an on-going musical learning focus and lessons usually follow a specific learning sequence:
- Listen and Appraise
- Musical Activities (including pulse and rhythm)
- Singing and Voice
- Playing instruments
- Improvisation / Composition
- Perform and Share
Impact
Children enjoy music as performers, composers and listeners. They feel confident in exploring ideas when composing. They are creative in expressing ideas about music they listen to- both in live performances and those played to them. They value the ideas and creative responses of others. All pupils have the opportunity to perform music in different ways through playing tuned and un-tuned instruments, both individually and in a group. They will have opportunities to perform familiar pieces as well as that they have composed using a range of notation. They enjoy and feel the “buzz” of taking part in musical productions where they sing with others and sometimes individually, through the rehearsals and delivery of such production’s children develop their self-esteem and confidence is performing.