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'I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music." - Billy Joel
At Millbrook Combined School, our music curriculum aims to inspire creativity, develop musical skills, and nurture a lifelong love of music. Our curriculum provides a rich and progressive musical journey, ensuring that all pupils experience high-quality music education. Through engaging lessons, children gain a firm understanding of what music is through listening, singing, playing, evaluating, and composing across a wide variety of historical periods, styles, traditions, and musical genres. We are committed to ensuring children understand the value and importance of music to their own and others’ lives and well-being, and the impact music has in the wider community. Through this approach, we aim to cultivate well-rounded individuals who appreciate the power of music as an essential part of human experience and cultural expression.
Charanga Music is used to support the delivery of the music curriculum. The musical content and skills are organised into units of work. The units of work enable children to understand musical concepts through a repetition-based approach to learning. Learning about the same musical concept through different musical activities enables a more secure, deeper learning of musical skills. By teaching the interrelated dimensions of music simultaneously, pupils will build on knowledge and skills taught previously. In EYFS, music is introduced in simple songs, rhymes and games to enable pupils to start to experience the greatness of music and something every child can access. Singing continues into Key Stage 1, with songs and chants underpinning all areas of study. Repetition of techniques is vital to consolidate and gain confidence. Pupils will begin to create their own music through improvisation, and they will also start to learn some simple compositional techniques and structures to prepare them as they move into Key Stage 2. In Key stage 2, pupils will encounter music by living composers and see composition as a current art form. Repetition of techniques is vital to consolidate and gain confidence, and songs, chants and listening repertoire are suggested as a starting point. Pupils will continue to internalise key musical skills and techniques through a range of activities including call-and-response songs and chants, improvisation, movement and active listening. Pupils will create music through improvisation, exploring how to write music for a specific purpose, and they will start to learn more sophisticated compositional techniques and structures. Weekly classroom music forms the basis of an entitlement for all pupils, which includes whole class instrumental teaching. All curriculum music lessons constitute opportunities to listen & appraise, sing, perform and/or compose. Pupils access a range of tuned and untuned percussion.
Pupils will be enthused and excited about music, and will have skills to express themselves as a listener, creator or performer. Pupils will be able to:
discuss music and comprehend its parts using musical vocabulary
recognise a diverse range of musical styles
name and know about composers from the past and present
sing and perform in unison and in parts with increasingly technical accuracy
find the pulse, add rhythms and create melodies
use non standard and standard notation
play simple, and for some students, a more complex range, of chords on the ukulele