Greenfield Primary School
Music
Intent
The National Curriculum for music aims to ensure that all children:
- perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions.
- be taught to sing, create and compose music on their own and with others and have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument.
- understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated, including through their inter-related dimensions.
At Greenfield Primary School, we intend to promote children’s love of music as an intrinsic and positive part of human experience.
Whether they want to be rock stars, choristers, or just enjoy music as an enriching element of their lives, we are committed to ensuring that all our children understand the traditions, elements and importance of music in the diverse community and are able to use their developing musical skills, knowledge, and experiences to involve themselves in music, in different contexts with increasing joy, confidence and understanding.
Implementation
We use the Charanga scheme to direct our music teaching. This is an online music scheme with lots of visual and auditory tools and interactive resources to support children's learning about music.
Children have access to a varied programme, which allows them to discover areas of interest and strength, as well as areas they might like to improve upon.
The music curriculum ensures children sing, listen, play, perform and evaluate. This is embedded through the Charanga structured music programme as well as weekly singing assemblies, various concerts and performances and the teaching of instruments by Barnsley specialist music teachers.
The varied but complementary elements of music are taught in the lessons so that children are able to use some of the language of music to explore it, and understand how it is made, played, appreciated and analysed. Children learn key aspects of music through both discrete learning and cross-curricular links. They also learn how to compose, focusing on different dimensions of music, which in turn feeds their understanding when listening, playing, or analysing music. Composing or performing using body percussion and vocal sounds is also part of the curriculum, which develops the understanding of musical elements without the added complexity of an instrument.
The integral nature of music and the learner creates an enormously rich palette from which a child may develop attributes such as: achievement, self-confidence, self-discipline, interaction with and awareness of others, and self-reflection.
Music education also develops an understanding of culture and history, both in relation to children individually, and with reference to diverse cultures.
Impact
We assess children’s learning in music during each lesson and through end-of-unit assessment and record their progress using the Insights tracking system.
The impact of this Music curriculum will lead to good or outstanding progress over time across key stages relative to a child’s individual starting point and their individual skills progression. Children will therefore be expected to leave Greenfield Primary School having reached at least age-appropriate expectations for Music. Our Music curriculum will hopefully foster a love and increasing enthusiasm for the subject amongst our children, and a potential for life- long musical study, and appreciation.
Pupils are given an understanding of how to further develop their skills, should they develop a deeper personal interest or aptitude in an aspect of musicianship. Individual tuition opportunities have resulted in some of our pupils going on to become highly proficient and creative musicians. In 2021, one of our ex-pupils was the youngest pupil from Barnsley Music Services to achieve a grade 8 and we are very proud of her.
Skye Stokes, a student at Barnsley Music Service has achieved a Grade 8 Award distinction (the equivalent of an A-Level pass) in the Baritone at just 12 years old.
Since first picking up a musical instrument while at Greenfield Primary school, Skye’s grown as a musician and a young person. Skye said, "Playing an instrument has given me a huge boost in confidence and important skills for learning and studying. It's simply the best fun and so rewarding."
Our musicians are encouraged to perform for audiences when we have concerts. Recently, our Y6 musicians played the keyboard, clarinet, drums and flute in our Christmas concert at Church in 2021. Children in other classes also performed for their parents at their Christmas concerts either live or via a pre-recorded video.
Greenfield Primary School
Music
Intent
The National Curriculum for music aims to ensure that all children:
- perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions.
- be taught to sing, create and compose music on their own and with others and have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument.
- understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated, including through their inter-related dimensions.
At Greenfield Primary School, we intend to promote children’s love of music as an intrinsic and positive part of human experience.
Whether they want to be rock stars, choristers, or just enjoy music as an enriching element of their lives, we are committed to ensuring that all our children understand the traditions, elements and importance of music in the diverse community and are able to use their developing musical skills, knowledge, and experiences to involve themselves in music, in different contexts with increasing joy, confidence and understanding.
Implementation
We use the Charanga scheme to direct our music teaching. This is an online music scheme with lots of visual and auditory tools and interactive resources to support children's learning about music.
Children have access to a varied programme, which allows them to discover areas of interest and strength, as well as areas they might like to improve upon.
The music curriculum ensures children sing, listen, play, perform and evaluate. This is embedded through the Charanga structured music programme as well as weekly singing assemblies, various concerts and performances and the teaching of instruments by Barnsley specialist music teachers.
The varied but complementary elements of music are taught in the lessons so that children are able to use some of the language of music to explore it, and understand how it is made, played, appreciated and analysed. Children learn key aspects of music through both discrete learning and cross-curricular links. They also learn how to compose, focusing on different dimensions of music, which in turn feeds their understanding when listening, playing, or analysing music. Composing or performing using body percussion and vocal sounds is also part of the curriculum, which develops the understanding of musical elements without the added complexity of an instrument.
The integral nature of music and the learner creates an enormously rich palette from which a child may develop attributes such as: achievement, self-confidence, self-discipline, interaction with and awareness of others, and self-reflection.
Music education also develops an understanding of culture and history, both in relation to children individually, and with reference to diverse cultures.
Impact
We assess children’s learning in music during each lesson and through end-of-unit assessment and record their progress using the Insights tracking system.
The impact of this Music curriculum will lead to good or outstanding progress over time across key stages relative to a child’s individual starting point and their individual skills progression. Children will therefore be expected to leave Greenfield Primary School having reached at least age-appropriate expectations for Music. Our Music curriculum will hopefully foster a love and increasing enthusiasm for the subject amongst our children, and a potential for life- long musical study, and appreciation.
Pupils are given an understanding of how to further develop their skills, should they develop a deeper personal interest or aptitude in an aspect of musicianship. Individual tuition opportunities have resulted in some of our pupils going on to become highly proficient and creative musicians. In 2021, one of our ex-pupils was the youngest pupil from Barnsley Music Services to achieve a grade 8 and we are very proud of her.
Skye Stokes, a student at Barnsley Music Service has achieved a Grade 8 Award distinction (the equivalent of an A-Level pass) in the Baritone at just 12 years old.
Since first picking up a musical instrument while at Greenfield Primary school, Skye’s grown as a musician and a young person. Skye said, "Playing an instrument has given me a huge boost in confidence and important skills for learning and studying. It's simply the best fun and so rewarding."
Our musicians are encouraged to perform for audiences when we have concerts. Recently, our Y6 musicians played the keyboard, clarinet, drums and flute in our Christmas concert at Church in 2021. Children in other classes also performed for their parents at their Christmas concerts either live or via a pre-recorded video.
Greenfield Primary School
Music
Intent
The National Curriculum for music aims to ensure that all children:
- perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions.
- be taught to sing, create and compose music on their own and with others and have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument.
- understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated, including through their inter-related dimensions.
At Greenfield Primary School, we intend to promote children’s love of music as an intrinsic and positive part of human experience.
Whether they want to be rock stars, choristers, or just enjoy music as an enriching element of their lives, we are committed to ensuring that all our children understand the traditions, elements and importance of music in the diverse community and are able to use their developing musical skills, knowledge, and experiences to involve themselves in music, in different contexts with increasing joy, confidence and understanding.
Implementation
We use the Charanga scheme to direct our music teaching. This is an online music scheme with lots of visual and auditory tools and interactive resources to support children's learning about music.
Children have access to a varied programme, which allows them to discover areas of interest and strength, as well as areas they might like to improve upon.
The music curriculum ensures children sing, listen, play, perform and evaluate. This is embedded through the Charanga structured music programme as well as weekly singing assemblies, various concerts and performances and the teaching of instruments by Barnsley specialist music teachers.
The varied but complementary elements of music are taught in the lessons so that children are able to use some of the language of music to explore it, and understand how it is made, played, appreciated and analysed. Children learn key aspects of music through both discrete learning and cross-curricular links. They also learn how to compose, focusing on different dimensions of music, which in turn feeds their understanding when listening, playing, or analysing music. Composing or performing using body percussion and vocal sounds is also part of the curriculum, which develops the understanding of musical elements without the added complexity of an instrument.
The integral nature of music and the learner creates an enormously rich palette from which a child may develop attributes such as: achievement, self-confidence, self-discipline, interaction with and awareness of others, and self-reflection.
Music education also develops an understanding of culture and history, both in relation to children individually, and with reference to diverse cultures.
Impact
We assess children’s learning in music during each lesson and through end-of-unit assessment and record their progress using the Insights tracking system.
The impact of this Music curriculum will lead to good or outstanding progress over time across key stages relative to a child’s individual starting point and their individual skills progression. Children will therefore be expected to leave Greenfield Primary School having reached at least age-appropriate expectations for Music. Our Music curriculum will hopefully foster a love and increasing enthusiasm for the subject amongst our children, and a potential for life- long musical study, and appreciation.
Pupils are given an understanding of how to further develop their skills, should they develop a deeper personal interest or aptitude in an aspect of musicianship. Individual tuition opportunities have resulted in some of our pupils going on to become highly proficient and creative musicians. In 2021, one of our ex-pupils was the youngest pupil from Barnsley Music Services to achieve a grade 8 and we are very proud of her.
Skye Stokes, a student at Barnsley Music Service has achieved a Grade 8 Award distinction (the equivalent of an A-Level pass) in the Baritone at just 12 years old.
Since first picking up a musical instrument while at Greenfield Primary school, Skye’s grown as a musician and a young person. Skye said, "Playing an instrument has given me a huge boost in confidence and important skills for learning and studying. It's simply the best fun and so rewarding."
Our musicians are encouraged to perform for audiences when we have concerts. Recently, our Y6 musicians played the keyboard, clarinet, drums and flute in our Christmas concert at Church in 2021. Children in other classes also performed for their parents at their Christmas concerts either live or via a pre-recorded video.