Music
Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity. A highquality music education should engage and inspire pupils to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians, and so increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement. As pupils progress, they should develop a critical engagement with music, allowing them to compose, and to listen with discrimination to the best in the musical canon.
(National Curriculum, DfE)
Music is a unique way of communicating that can inspire and motivate children. It is a vehicle for personal expression, and it can play an important part in personal development.
At Abbey View Primary Academy, we aim to provide a high-quality music education that gives all pupils the chance to participate in a wide variety of musical opportunities. The children will leave school with an appreciation of how music is composed and performed. At Abbey View, we foster a love for music and encourage children to learn and share their musical talents throughout the year.
Music reflects the culture and society we live in, and the teaching and learning of music enables children to better understand the world around them. Besides being a creative and enjoyable activity, music can also be a strong and challenging academic subject. It plays an important role in helping children to feel part of a community. We provide opportunities for all children to create, play, perform and enjoy music, to develop the skills to appreciate a wide variety of musical forms, and to begin to make judgements about the quality of music.
At Abbey View the National Curriculum for music is suitably adapted and differentiated to meet the needs of all pupils and aims to allow pupils to have opportunities to:
- perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions, including the works of great musicians and composers;
- compose and make music with others, have an opportunity to learn a musical instrument, and have an opportunity to progress to the next level of musical excellence;
- understand musical notations and how music is constructed, produced and communicated through its inter-related dimensions: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture and structure
In all classes, children have an opportunity to learn an instrument – we have an established learning programme which currently includes percussion, glockenspiel, ukulele and recorder, and which will expand with the school. This is a fantastic opportunity and often leads to children taking up individual music lessons, which are also available at school.
All children also take part in a Key Stage singing assembly once a week where they learn songs related to the season or important festivals. This gives us another opportunity to listen and appraise a range of music
Curriculum documents
Welcome to our Music curriculum section. Here, you can explore the key documents that guide and support our learning at Abbey View:
Online Subject Links
- Animations of some of the best-known traditional nursery rhymes
BBC school radio Nursery Rhymes 0-5
- Audio and video resources for KS1 and KS2
- Dances for each of the four element have been choreographed to different pieces of classical music
BBC Teach KS1 Physical Education and Music videos
- Various videos relating to the elements of music and the key skills of listening, composing, appraising and performing for KS2
- Beat Goes On is a collection of body percussion videos. The founder of this company, Ollie Tunmer is a former cast member of the hit show STOMP
