Music
Whole School - Progression Overview
Intent
Here at Marnel we use the ‘Sing up’ scheme to support our music teaching. It is designed to provide a high quality, ambitious education for every child whatever their starting point. The aim is to inspire and excite our children by learning through fun, engaging and practical musical experiences. This year, we are pleased to announce that the Hampshire Music Service will be delivering the “Listen to Me” programme for our Year 4 students. Through this initiative, students will have the unique opportunity to learn three different musical instruments over the course of the year, under the guidance of specialist instructors. We believe this programme will significantly enhance our students’ musical abilities, providing them with a comprehensive understanding of musical notes, staves, and other fundamental concepts.
We believe that our musical curriculum enables pupils to think critically about the music that they are exposed to and to develop an awareness of the emotional impact on us. By exposing children to this we hope to develop each child with an enquiring mind and instil in them a love for music.
Our musical curriculum not only meets the requirements of “The National Curriculum” but also the needs of all our children at Marnel. The children are offered many opportunities during their time at Marnel. Cultural capital is an integral part of school life. We want to ensure that our children develop into aspirational, successful young people who are confident in music lessons and experiences at school.
Implementation
Our music curriculum is planned and delivered across our school to enable clear progression in skills and knowledge. We value active learning opportunities to immerse children fully into the musical learning experience and strive to provide creative opportunities where children are encouraged to take risks, ask questions and explore their learning in collaboration with others.
Each unit in our music scheme has a skills progression document which enables teachers to pitch the learning at the right level and also support through scaffolding and extend where needed.
Our musical learning each term is coupled with our core learning behaviours to support the children with their learning and overall development. These learning behaviours are:
- Open minded
- Resilience
- Respect
- Co-operation
- Reflectiveness
- Tolerance
These underpin the core values of the school and are integral to ensuring that the experiences children have are purposeful, relevant and help them to grow.
Impact
Through our musical curriculum we aim to encourage independence and an enquiring mind with a thirst for learning. Our children enjoy the broad and balanced range of activities. We provide many extra-curricular opportunities to allow our children to have a desire to reach their full potential in Music at Marnel and in their further education.
