Music
Each year group studies different instruments and mediums for making music.
- Year 1 - Singing and rhythm
- Year 2 - Recorders
- Year 3 - Glockenspiels
- Year 4 - Glockenspiels
- Year 5 - Ukuleles
- Year 6 - Guitar
We have weekly singing assemblies with an outside musician and an active school choir who perform in school and for the local community. Our Year 5 and 6 children perform annually with the Hallé Orchestra at the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham. We also have a very popular after school recorders club.
The National Curriculum for Music in Years 1 and 2
Our children will be taught to:
- Use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes
- Play tuned and untuned instruments musically
- Listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music
- Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the interrelated dimensions of music
The National Curriculum for Music in Years 3 to 6
Our children will be taught to:
- 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 interrelated 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
Please see the link for the National Curriculum for Music - National Curriculum in Music.