Intent

At Witherley CE Primary School we offer a curriculum which is balanced and broad. Our aim is to to engage and inspire pupils to develop a love of music and to develop their talent as musicians, increasing their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement. We aim to allow the children to experience a wide range of music genre, including classical, modern and cultural, through music lessons and their wider school environment.

Pupils will develop an engagement with music, allowing them to evaluate, compose and identify musical elements with confidence. Through the curriculum we aim to allow children to perform, listen to, review and evaluate music from a wide range, including the works of the great composers and musicians. They will learn to sing and use their voices. Every week we have a singing assembly. We also offer our families the opportunity to have musical instrument lessons through Now Music.

Implementation

The Leicestershire Music scheme of work is designed to teach the content of the National Curriculum. This is achieved by developing the pupil's knowledge through six strands.

These are:

• Pulse
• Voice
• Rhythm
• Pitch
• Music Technology, Form and Structure
• 20^th Century Music

This knowledge can then be applied whilst studying the different units of learning. The units do have a key focus but are inter-related.

The progression of skills and knowledge in each year group show how these skills are developed to ensure that attainment targets are met by the end of each Key Stage.

The Leicestershire Music scheme revisits key skills and vocabulary, this enables pupils to revise and build on their previous learning.

Our music lessons include class learning, individual, paired and group work including playing instruments, singing and using body-percussion. Children have the opportunity to take part in extra-curricular music lessons and singing clubs preparing for Young Voices. The children have the opportunity to  participate in showcasing music or singing to an audience throughout the school year.

Impact

The impact of the Leicestershire Music scheme can be monitored continuously through both formative and summative assessment.

The expected impact of following the Leicestershire Music scheme of work is that children will develop a love of music whilst attaining the end-of-KS2 National Curriculum outcomes:

• play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression
• improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music
• listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory
• use and understand staff and other musical notations
• appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians
• develop an understanding of the history of music.

  The impact of the scheme can be monitored continuously through both formative and summative assessment.

  The expected impact of following the Music scheme of work is that children will attain to the end-of-KS2 National Curriculum outcomes:

• play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression
• improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music
• listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory
• use and understand staff and other musical notations
• appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians
• develop an understanding of the history of music.

In Explorers we are musicians through Expressive Arts and Design, Communication and Language and Physical Development. 
We love to explore and express ourselves through dancing, singing and making music. We learn rhymes and songs. Together we are learning to follow a music pattern with our bells. We perform to our friends and families through spontaneous shows and our planned Nativity at Christmas.