Our Curriculum : Music
At East Hunsbury Primary School, it is our intention that our music curriculum is aspirational, enabling, inclusive and enriching. We intend to teach Music so that our pupils enjoy and gain knowledge of how music making and music appreciation can enrich their lives. Our music curriculum is intended to:
- Give children the opportunity to appreciate, perform, understand and compose music from a range of times, traditions, genres and composers.
- Enable children to sing and play musically with increased confidence and control.
- Give all children an opportunity to learn/play a musical instrument.
- Ensure our children develop the technical vocabulary which will help them understand and appreciate Music.
- Encourage mental health and wellbeing by bringing the whole school community together through music.
Working in partnership and with our local Music Hub (Northampton Music and Performing Arts Trust) we intend to create a strong musical culture within our school. Music has the power to foster connections within the brain which will improve memory and coordination. The skills involved in playing and listening to music will also help learners develop the self-esteem, self-discipline, cooperation, creativity, and self-motivation necessary for success. We aim to establish a lifelong passion for music as an art form is that it is accessible to all. It is an art form that is entwined into the fabric of our lives, and we aim to enable children to enrich their experience of all types of music.
We hope children continue to grow in confidence as they progress through the musical curriculum and become passionate in their responses to music. Added to this, we want children to become more independent learners within this area, reflect upon their learning and develop resilience within the musical world.
Music lessons are taught throughout the school by Specialist teachers from Northampton Music and Performing Arts Trust. We have developed and enduring and longstanding relationship with NMPAT as we believe that Specialist teaching ensures all pupils access high quality teaching from staff who are confident and passionate practitioners. This allows pupils to access a wide range of music from across all genres and time periods.
Early Years
A love and learning of music start in the Early Years where through: Communication and Language, Expressive Arts and Design and Personal development, children will:
- Sing a wide range of nursery rhymes and songs (this is also mapped out in our writing curriculum and part of our oracy)
- Perform songs, rhymes, poems and stories with others and try to move in time to music.
- Combine different movements with fluency (EYFS children are also allocated a performance poem in line with the rest of the school in the Spring term)
- Listen carefully to songs and rhymes, paying attention to how they sound.
- Explore, use and refine a variety of artistic effects to express their ideas and feelings
Children in the Early Years also have a music lesson taught by a specialist teacher once a week.
Building on the Early Years
Music lessons are timetabled and taught for at least an hour every week by a specialist music teacher. As a school, we have adopted NMPAT’s music curriculum (based on The Model Music Curriculum) which is logically sequenced with clear progression of substantive and disciplinary knowledge. It has been written by specialists, encompasses our ethos for high quality music teaching and has clear end points with content logically chunked over time which builds towards these outcomes.
The Units taught involve:
- Singing, playing and performing
- Learning to play a range of instruments
- Listening, appraising and musicianship
- Learning ways to show musical notation
- Reading musical notation
- Improvising and creating their own compositions
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Long Term Plan – Curriculum music |
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Unit 1 - Aut 1 |
Unit 2 – Aut 2 |
Unit 3 – Spring 1 |
Unit 4 – Spring 2 |
Unit 5 – Summer 1 |
Unit 6–Summer 2 |
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Reception |
Title: Favourite Things/ Autumn Focus: Exploring sounds, pitch (soh-me interval) Skills focus: Singing, Listening Resources: Inside Music Early Years (Voices Foundation) Jolly Music |
Title: Halloween/ Light/Winter Festivals/Story Settings Focus: Pitch (higher/ lower), dynamics (louder/quieter), musical storytelling Skills focus: Singing, Playing Instruments, Listening and Responding Resources: Inside Music Early Years (Voices Foundation) Sing Up: Sorcerers Apprentice |
Title: Cold/Winter/ Space Focus: Pulse (slower/faster) Skills focus: Singing, Listening, Performing, Playing Instruments Resources: Inside Music Early Years (Voices Foundation) Jolly Music |
Title: Earth/The Woods Focus: Duration, (longer/shorter) Skills focus: Singing, Listening, Performing, Playing Instruments Resources: Inside Music Early Years (Voices Foundation) Jolly Music, Sing Up Birdspotting |
Title: Growing Focus: Exploring sound and meaning Skills focus: Singing, Playing Instruments, Listening Resources: Voices ‘Early Years 0-5, Jolly Music , NYCOS Singing Games for Early Years, Voicelinks |
Title: Minibeasts/Sea Focus: Pitch (higher/lower), Pulse (faster/slower), Dynamics (louder/quieter) Skills focus: Performing, Singing, Listening, Playing Instruments Resources: Inside Music Early Years (Voices Foundation), Jolly Music, Sing Up – 5 Fine Bumblebees and Down Under The Sea |
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Year 1 |
Title: The King is in the Castle and Storytime Focus: Structure, timbre, pitch, dynamics, exploring sounds Skills focus: Listening, Singing, Using Instruments, Performing Resources: Sing up and Music Express |
Title: Number, Weather & Christmas Focus: Beat, exploring sounds, performance skills Skills focus: Performing, Singing, Musicianship Resources: Music Express and Sing Up |
Title: Animals and Our Bodies Focus: Pitch, beat Skills focus: Musicianship, Using Instruments Resources: Music Express |
Title: Machines and Seasons Focus: Beat, pitch Skills focus: Singing, Musicianship, Performing Resources: Music Express |
Title: Water and Pattern Focus: Pitch, beat Skills focus: Using Instruments, Performing, Musicianship Resources: Music Express |
Title: Bringing stories to life with music Focus: Performance skills. Beat, pitch, composing Skills focus: Composing, Improvising, Listening Resources: Unit by Sue Nicholls |
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Year 2 |
Title: Musical Me and Our Land Focus: Rhythm, pulse, dynamics, timbre, melody, texture Skills focus: Composing, Listening, Performing, Singing Resources: Kapow and Music Express
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Title: Storytime, Number and Christmas Focus: Exploring sounds, beat, rhythm Skills focus: Performing, Singing Resources: Music Express and Sing Up |
Title: Orchestral Instruments – Theme Traditional Stories Focus: Instruments of the orchestra, timbre, pitch Skills focus: Listening Performing Resources: Kapow |
Title: West African Animals Call and Response Focus: Call and response, simple notation Skills focus: Composing, Performing Resources: Kapow |
Title: Tony Chestnut Focus: Beat, rhythm, melody, echo, call-and-response, tuned and untuned Skills focus: Singing, Improvising, Performing Resources: Sing up |
Title: Weather and Seasons Focus: Exploring sounds, word rhythms, pitch shapes Skills focus: Performing, Singing, Listening Resources: Music Express |
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Year 3 |
Title: Fly with the stars Focus: Minor and major chords, dot notation, durations Skills focus: Performing, Composing Resources: Sing Up |
Title: Time, Human Body and Christmas Focus: Beat, metre rhythm, structure Skills focus: Performing, Improvising, Singing Resources: Music Express and Sing Up |
Title: Fly with the stars Focus: Exploring sounds, pitch, timbre Skills focus: Performing, Using Instruments, Composing Resources: Sing Up |
Title: Time, Human Body and Christmas Focus: Pitch, notation, duration, structure Skills focus: Performing, Composing, Listening Resources: Music Express and Sing Up |
Title: Poetry and Food and Drink Focus: Performance, chants, word rhythms Skills focus: Performing, Singing, Composing Resources: Music Express |
Title: Singing French & Communication Focus: Pitch, composition Skills focus: Singing, Composing Resources: Music Express |
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Year 4 |
Title: This Little Light of Mine Focus: Pentatonic scale, gospel music, off-beat, rhythm, call-and-response Skills focus: Singing, Listening, Improvising Resources: Sing Up |
Title: Rock and Roll and Christmas Focus: Rock and roll, hand jive, tempo, 12 bar blues dynamics Skills focus: Performing, Composing, Improvising Resources: Kapow and Sing Up |
Title: Sounds and Around the World Focus: Exploring Sounds, Classifying instruments, Pentatonic scale Skills focus: Performing, Singing, Improvising Resources: Music Express |
Title: Rainforests Focus: Structure, texture, body percussion, layers Skills focus: Performing, Composing Resources: Kapow |
Title: Time and Ancient Worlds Focus: Rhythm/beat, structure, metre, syncopation, layers Skills focus: Performing, Listening, Musicianship Resources: Music Express |
Title: Singing Spanish, Food and Drink and Communication Focus: Pitch, rhythmic patterns, rondo structure Skills focus: Performing, Composing, Singing Resources: Music Express |
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Year 5 |
Title: Listening and Appraising Focus: Structure, minimalism, history of music, composers. Skills focus: Performing, Listening, Composing Resources: BBC 10 Pieces |
Title: The Planets and Winter (Vivaldi) Focus: Orchestral music, ostinato, timbre, motif, dynamics Skills focus: Performing, Listening, Composing Resources: LW planning (used TES, BBC 10 pieces for ideas) and Winter (Vivaldi) - BBC 10 Pieces |
Title: Looping and Remixing Focus: loops, notation, ostinato, remix, fragments Skills focus: Performing, Listening, Composing Resources: Kapow |
Title: South and West Africa Focus: African music, a cappella, chord, master drummer, syncopation, poly-rhythms Skills focus: Performing, Listening, Singing, Using Instruments Resources: Kapow |
Title: Sea Shanties - Focus: Sea shanties, part singing, rhythm, ostinato Skills focus: Performing, Listening, Composing Resources: LW planning and Sing Up |
Title: Theme and Variations: Pop Art and Music - Focus: Holi, dynamics, graphic score, vocal composition Skills focus: Performing, Listening, Composing, Improvising Resources: Kapow |
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Year 6 |
Title: Film Music Focus: Melody, timbre, tonality Skills focus: Performing, Listening, Using Instruments. Resources: TES adapted by LW. |
Title: Songs of World War 2 Focus: Pitch, harmonising, notation Skills focus: Performing, Singing Resources: Kapow |
Title: Shadows Focus: Artists and their influences and comparing musical genres. Skills focus: Listening, Performing Resources: Sing Up |
Title: Hip Hop (using Music Technology) Focus: Tempo, structure, timbre, pitch Skills focus: Composing, Improvising, Performing Resources: Charanga |
Title: Voiceworks Focus: Call and response, pitch accuracy, unison/harmony, rounds, chants Skills focus: Singing, Performing, Composing, Resources: Musical Contexts |
Title: Composing and Performing a leavers song Focus: Lyrics, arrangements structure, chords, notation, melody Skills focus: Composing, Performing, Improvising Resources: Kapow |
Music technology is part of the music curriculum and is also integrated into our computing curriculum (e.g. Year 4 Computing unit- Creating media: Audio editing.) Pupils have opportunities to use music technology applications to record or sequence sounds and use this knowledge to create tracks / add music to film / photo sequences / visual art / poems / stories.
All children in Year 4 take part in the NMPAT First Access Music Project in which all children learn to play a musical instrument. In this project, children experience live performances and perform to others. They are given opportunities to continue with their tuition after the project has ended through small group or individual lessons.
In addition to the curriculum music teaching, in Key Stage 2, children are offered the opportunity to study a musical instrument with peripatetic teachers. Children are encouraged to perform and show their progress to their peers during class and school assemblies. All instrument learners are also given the chance to showcase their talents and progress to their parents at our end of year Music Gala.
We have a school choir comprising of children in upper KS2 (including the SU) who take part in many performances in the community and the wider area. Performances include singing to residents at local care homes, local library events, singing at special school events (Christmas fair and open evenings) performing at the local Derngate Theatre and at the Resorts World Arena in Birmingham.
During the school year, our children have the opportunity during the year to see live musical performances from visiting music practitioners from the NMPAT Music Hub. During this academic year, children and teachers have taken part in assemblies/workshops from musical professionals such as, Word Guerrilla, The Beat Goes On and iRock.
Singing and music performance play a pivotal role in our termly year group assemblies. The children are able to perform to a high quality, songs taught by their class teachers or pieces learnt in their music lessons.
The children in both key stages take part in weekly Sing and Sign Assemblies. Songs are chosen by the music lead to link with special calendar events or are specifically chosen to link with our whole school values of Be Kind, Work Hard and Believe. During assemblies, children have opportunities to listen to music from different composers, genres and times and sing age-appropriate popular songs.
We offer a KS1 after school Musicianship club run by one of our specialist music teachers from NMPAT. During sessions children continue to develop skills and knowledge relating to the elements of music, including introduction to reading and writing simple musical notation, through singing, movement, and playing sound makers and instruments. Puppets and other props add to the fun and games! Activities help children to further develop self-confidence and perseverance, whilst making friends and continuing their musical journey. This club is chargeable to parents for a small termly fee and any profit made goes directly back into music education at EHPS.
Our Specialist Unit take part in regular music lessons as part of their curriculum. To ensure inclusion, the Specialist Unit often participate with the mainstream lessons, where appropriate. With the support of the SU staff, the use of Makaton signing is encouraged when singing. Mainstream children enjoy using the Makaton signs alongside their SU peers but it also enables them to learn new signs as well as help to communicate.
Certain children with specific SEND needs in the Mainstream and children in the Specialist unit also access additional music therapy sessions with a NMPAT specialist SEND music teacher.
As a school, we encourage children in receipt of the pupil premium grant and their families to engage in musical opportunities and instrument tuition. We provide additional support through resources to enhance accessibility and staff scaffold work to meet the needs of all students. Children have the opportunities to actively learn and engage with music from a range of cultures and tradition in all key stages and provisions.
The impact of our music curriculum is measured through:
- Pupil voice/discussion and by how they are able to talk about and appreciate a range of Music.
• Observations of pupil performances including singing and school productions
• Evaluating compositions.
• Achieving awards and quality marks such as: Music Mark (which we have achieved for the past 3 academic years) to bench mark our provision and outcomes against.
Assessments should show a development of vocabulary, musical knowledge (substantive and disciplinary) and application of skill.
The specialist NMPAT teachers also undertake assessments during lessons and liaise closely with class teachers on pupil performance, outcomes and attainment. Teachers use a flexible three-tier termly assessment tool based on the Model Music Curriculum Minimum Expected Standards to track progress and they also provide information for our Parents’ Evenings and Annual Reports.
For more information please refer to the specific music curriculum
Music development plan summary:
East Hunsbury Primary School
Overview
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Detail |
Information |
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Academic year that this summary covers |
2023-2024 |
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Date this summary was published |
July 2024 |
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Date this summary will be reviewed |
May 2024 |
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Name of the school music lead |
F Landeman |
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Name of school leadership team member with responsibility for music (if different) |
S Heavens (curriculum lead) |
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Name of local music hub |
NMPAT (Northamptonshire Music and Performing Arts Trust) |
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Name of other music education organisation(s) (if partnership in place) |
N/A |
This is a summary of how our school delivers music education to all our pupils across three areas – curriculum music, co-curricular provision and musical experiences – and what changes we are planning in future years. This information is to help pupils and parents or carers understand what our school offers and who we work with to support our pupils’ music education.
Part A: Curriculum music
This is about what we teach in lesson time, how much time is spent teaching music and any music qualifications or awards that pupils can achieve.
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Please refer to our website https://www.easthunsburyprimary.org.uk/key-information/our-curriculum/cvsmus for specific music curriculum intent, our long term map and information regarding how we support children with SEND during our music lessons and with music. Music lessons are taught throughout the school by specialist teachers from Northampton Music and Performing Arts Trust in our designated music studio space. We have developed and enduring and longstanding relationship with NMPAT as we believe that specialist teaching ensures all pupils access high quality teaching from staff who are confident and passionate practitioners. This allows pupils to access a wide range of music from across all genres and time periods. Early Years: A love and learning of music start in the Early Years where through: Communication and Language, Expressive Arts and Design and Personal development, children will:
Children in the Early Years also have a music lesson taught by a specialist teacher once a week. Building on the Early Years: In key stages 1 and 2, Music lessons are timetabled and taught for an average of an hour a week by specialist music teacher. As a school, we have adopted NMPAT’s music curriculum (based on The Model Music Curriculum) which is logically sequenced with clear progression of substantive and disciplinary knowledge. It has been written by specialists, encompasses our ethos for high quality music teaching and has clear end points with content logically chunked over time which builds towards these outcomes. The Units taught involve:
Specialist teachers also use units and resources from a variety published works. These include: Sing Up, Music Express, Kapow and BBC 10 pieces. Children in Year 4 take part in the NMPAT First Access Music Project in which all children learn to play a musical instrument. In this project, children experience live performances and perform to others. They are given opportunities to continue with their tuition after the project has ended through small group or individual lessons. Previous academic year First Access projects: · 23-24 Year 4- Clarinet · 22-23 Year 5- Brass · 21-22 Year 3- Violin |
Part B: Extra-curricular music
This is about opportunities for pupils to sing and play music, outside of lesson time, including choirs, ensembles and bands, and how pupils can make progress in music beyond the core curriculum.
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In addition to the curriculum music teaching, in Key Stage 2, children are offered the opportunity to study a musical instrument with peripatetic teachers from NMPAT. We have high participation in this - approximately 25% of children in year 3,4,5 and 6 access extra-curricular musical instrument tuition. The instruments currently on offer are: Violin, Woodwind (Recorder, Clarinet, Flute), Guitar and Keyboard. Every child is allocated 10 minutes but lessons are often taught in pairs or small groups to maximise teaching time. We try to vary the instruments offered in First Access project to encourage take up of particular instruments. Parents are charged by NMPAT to take part in these lessons and as a school, we offer subsidised fee’s for children who are in receipt of the pupil premium grant. When ready, children are encouraged to take part in graded musical examinations with varying musical boards depending on their instrument (e.g. ABRSM and Trinity College London). In most cases instruments are loaned to children via NMPAT except those who play the guitar or recorder. We have a popular school choir comprising of children in year 4,5 & 6 (including the SU) who meet weekly and take part in many performances in the community and the wider area. This is directed by our music lead and there is no charge or audition required by children to take part. During the Summer term 2024 we began to offer a KS1 after school Musicianship club run by one of our specialist music teachers from NMPAT. During sessions children continue to develop skills and knowledge relating to the elements of music, including introduction to reading and writing simple musical notation, through singing, movement, and playing sound makers and instruments. Puppets and other props add to the fun and games! Activities help children to further develop self-confidence and perseverance, whilst making friends and continuing their musical journey. This popular club is chargeable to parents for a small termly fee and any profit made goes directly back into music education at EHPS. These extra-curricular clubs all take place in our designated music studio space. Due to the strong partnership with our local music hub, when requested, we encourage and advertise to children the opportunities available to them with NMPAT outside of school. These include: Saturday morning music centres, youth ensembles /choirs and for those within our SU, Y-Not Arts. Please refer to our local music hub’s website for more information of what they have to offer our children outside of school. |
Part C: Musical experiences
This is about all the other musical events and opportunities that we organise, such as singing in assembly, concerts and shows, and trips to professional concerts.
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Children in our choir have opportunities to perform throughout the year. Past performances include singing at special school events (Christmas fete and open evenings), local library community events, singing to residents at local care homes, performing at the local Northampton Derngate Theatre (NMPAT Big Sing) and at the Resorts World Arena in Birmingham (Young Voices). Children who receive instrument tuition are encouraged to perform and show their progress to their peers during class and school assemblies. All instrument learners are also given the chance to showcase their talents and progress to their parents at our end of year Music Gala. During the school year, our children have the opportunity to see live musical performances from visiting music practitioners from the NMPAT Music Hub. During this academic year, children and teachers have taken part in assemblies/workshops from musical professionals such as, Word Guerrilla, The Beat Goes On and iRock. Singing and music performance play a pivotal role in our termly year group assemblies. The children are able to perform to a high quality, songs taught by their class teachers or pieces learnt in their music lessons to an audience of their parents and carers. The children in both key stages take part in weekly Sing and Sign Assemblies. Songs are chosen by the music lead to link with special calendar events or are specifically chosen to link with our whole school values of Be Kind, Work Hard and Believe. During assemblies, children have opportunities to listen to music from different composers, genres and times and sing age-appropriate popular songs. Year 5 children annually take part in NMPAT’s ‘The Festival’ where our children join other schools from the county to perform at Northampton Derngate theatre. Other annual performances (performed on our school stage) which all include music and singing are: · Reception – Christmas Nativity · Year 1 – Carols by Twinkle light · Year 6 – Carols and Crafts · SU – Easter/Whitsun performance · Year 6 – Leavers show/musical |
In the future
This is about what the school is planning for subsequent years.
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Use this space to include any information on any improvements you plan to make for subsequent years in curriculum music, co-curricular music or musical experiences, including when you plan to introduce changes. Also consider including: · any information that relates to the 7 features of high-quality music provision (see the text box at the beginning of the template), such as increasing lesson time to one hour a week each term, introducing the teaching of new instruments or having a termly school performance. · School ensemble opportunities: Introduction of iRock lessons- beginning September 2024 at a cost to parents. Possible additional ensemble in spring 2025 e.g. Ukulele-following the proposed First Access project. · Arrange at least one additional live performance for the whole school which may include a workshop during the academic year. (e.g. recital teams from NMPAT, African drumming) this could also be cross curricular. · Give children more opportunities to perform throughout the year. Showcasing projects completed in curriculum music lessons or in instruments lessons. This could be live performance or recordings (during school assemblies- to peers, Brilliance week) Children who will take part in iRock lessons will be able to do this termly as part their contract. · Increase the use of music technology in curriculum lessons from spring 2025. Partnership work with the local music Hub (NMPAT) and MusicFirst who provide cloud based composition software aimed at Upper KS2. · To consider music appreciation methods outside of the curriculum lesson time. · Bi-weekly class singing assembly to be included. |
Further information (optional)
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https://nmpat.co.uk/ Northamptonshire Music and Performing Arts Trust (NMPAT) is the lead partner in the Northamptonshire and Rutland Music Education Hub (N&RMEH), a partnership of organisations committed to delivering the aims of the National Plan for Music Education for the children and young people of Northamptonshire. SMDP-NMPAT-Guidance-May-2023-1.pdf – NMPAT guidance on creating a SMDP App-1-Primary-Audit-May-2023.pdf – NMPAT primary school audit Our school is part of the Northampton Primary Academy Trust https://www.npatschools.org/ We are a music mark school https://www.musicmark.org.uk/ https://www.musicmark.org.uk/resources/national-plan-for-music-education-2022-the-power-of-music-to-change-lives/ We subscribe to Sing Up - https://www.singup.org/ |
British Values
Individual Liberty: Children show a sense of enjoyment and fascination in learning about themselves, others and the world around them. They show imagination and creativity in their learning.
Mutual Respect: Through listening and discussing music and the creative processes behind it, we often identify differences in opinions and feelings. Children are able to appreciate the differences in their own musical tastes, their classmates and the wider world.
Democracy: In lessons children make decisions together in teams to create and perform music. They make sure that everyone’s thoughts, suggestions and ideas are considered.
Tolerance of different faiths and beliefs: By studying a variety of music from different countries and cultures, children understand that we all share the same beliefs and values. They also understand the importance of values and ideas when working together in ensemble groups and learn to listen to others opinions when rehearsing for group performances.
The rule of law: Children appreciate that the musical instruments that we use are cared for and not damaged. They understand that the rules for their use prepare us for using equipment in the world of work.