Our curriculum is designed to harness the wide-ranging opportunities presented in an arts-rich academy to transform the thinking, appreciation and behaviours of pupils to become culturally competent citizens. By taking a highly practical approach to addressing the key skills and concepts addressed on the National Curriculum and beyond, we prepare our pupils to develop a lifelong love of the subject that they can apply to the wider community and, possibly, their careers.

We provide creative opportunities for pupils to find their own voice and develop discipline and confidence through high-quality rehearsal and exploration of sounds. We will provide a sequence of concepts showing a clear progression of skills and knowledge in Music. It provides a framework from which relevant learning experiences can be planned to broaden the horizons and experiences of all pupils, without exception, to enable them to recognise and take advantage of opportunities available to them, promoting the concept of aspirations.

At Crudgington Primary, we recognise the important role of music in children’s development. Our high-quality music curriculum meets the needs of the National Curriculum aim of ‘engaging and inspiring pupils to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians,’ in order to ‘increase self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement.’ Children will participate in a range of musical experiences including whole class singing and learning a musical instrument. Music lessons will provide children with the opportunity to create, play, perform and listen. Our curriculum allows pupils to understand a wide range of musical genres, styles, tradition, and historical periods. At the heart of our music curriculum are the dimensions of music: pulse, rhythm, pitch, tempo, dynamics, timbre, structure, and notation. Pupils will develop a greater understanding of each dimension as they progress through their learning journey at Crudgington Primary and will establish secure musical skills and concepts as a result.

Children will:

• Sing, play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts.
• Listen to, review, and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres and styles.
• Understand how music is produced, created, and communicated.
• Improvise and compose music.
• Use and understand musical notation.
• Appreciate a range of high-quality music from great composers and musicians.

Our Music curriculum will:

• Develop pupils’ ability to sing and use their voices individually and in a group.
• Allow pupils to create and compose music on their own and with others.
• Give opportunities to learn a musical instrument.
• Give pupils knowledge of how to use technology appropriately when composing.
• Provide pupils with the opportunity to understand and explore how music is created, produced, and communicated.
• Expose pupils to a range of great composers and musicians from a variety of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions.
• Promote the enjoyment and appreciation of a range of different music styles e.g. classical, jazz, hip-hop, pop, rock etc.
• Develop understanding of musical language and include musical features in their own work.
• Make judgements about the quality of music.
• Provide pupils with opportunities to play a variety of instruments and take part in performances.