Our Aims for our Music curriculum at Chinley School
· To provide a music curriculum which is broad and balanced
· To encourage children to enjoy musical activities and to provide them with the skills and confidence to participate in musical activities with personal satisfaction
· To assist each child to develop a positive self‑image and self‑confidence
· To develop a sensitive response to sound and music
· To provide pupils with opportunities to perform, sing and play music for a range of audiences.
· To provide a curriculum which progressively develops musical skills, concepts and knowledge
· To give pupils access to high quality teaching opportunities through specialist music teachers.
· To promote positive attitudes towards, and enthusiasm for, music work in school
· To develop social skills and awareness whilst making music together
LEARNING OBJECTIVES - What will the children learn?
· Discuss and appraise musical activities through an experience of both the performance of live and recorded music by peers and professional musicians
· Explore the main elements of music, for example high/low, loud/quiet, long/short, fast/slow, texture, structure quality of sound, rhythm and beat.
· Explore rhythmic and melodic ideas
· Compose music for a variety of purposes and audiences, at a basic level
· Perform music to a variety of audiences
· Write their own musical compositions using symbols to record these, at a basic level
· Explore and experiment with a variety of sounds and silence
· Learn and join in with a wide variety of songs and rhymes
· Discover and explore links between music and other subjects
