What is Music?
Music is a creative and expressive subject that enables pupils to listen, perform, compose and respond to music. It helps pupils understand how sounds are created, organised and communicated while experiencing music from a wide range of styles, traditions, cultures and periods.
The Kapow Primary Music scheme provides a spiral curriculum from EYFS to Year 6, with learning organised around the interrelated dimensions of music. The current curriculum is structured through five key strands:
- Listening and evaluating.
- Creating sound.
- Notation.
- Improvising and composing.
- Performing.
Why is Music important?
Music gives every child opportunities to be creative, expressive and actively involved in making music. Pupils learn to use their voices and instruments, listen carefully, create and develop musical ideas and perform both individually and with others.
Through our spiral curriculum, pupils revisit and build upon prior learning so that they know more, remember more and can do more as musicians. They develop increasingly accurate musical vocabulary and learn to perform with greater accuracy, fluency, control and expression, improvise and compose for different purposes and understand and use musical notation.
Listening and evaluating are integral to our curriculum. Pupils experience a broad range of high-quality music from different styles, periods, traditions, composers and musicians. They learn to listen with increasing attention to detail, respond thoughtfully and use their growing knowledge of the inter-related dimensions of music to discuss what they hear.
We believe Music should be accessible to all pupils. Children work towards the same ambitious musical learning, with appropriate support, modelling, scaffolding and challenge enabling every pupil to participate and succeed.
Music also develops wider skills including confidence, creativity, concentration, communication, teamwork and perseverance. Pupils have opportunities to perform and celebrate their musical achievements with others.
SMSC
Music provides rich opportunities for pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. Pupils express ideas and emotions, listen and respond to the work of others and learn to value different musical traditions and cultures. Collaborative composing and performing encourage cooperation, respect and a sense of belonging, while a diverse musical repertoire helps pupils appreciate the richness of the wider world.