Music
Music Curriculum intent
The Churchill Music curriculum aims to engage and inspire children’s natural curiosity and love for Music, to improve wellbeing, and to provide opportunities to be creative and free through musical exploration. Pupils will be exposed to music from a wide range of cultures and styles, and by explicitly teaching musical skills and subject specific language, our curriculum enables our pupils to gain skills and knowledge as both active musicians and also ‘consumers’ of music. Our curriculum topics include opportunities to explore all the strands that make an excellent and enriching Music curriculum:
- Singing / Signing
- Listening
- Composing
- Performing / Instrumental Performance
As the children progress throughout the school, the curriculum is designed to cover all areas of the national curriculum alongside some aspects of the Music Model Curriculum. We use our own Music Scheme, supported by Charanga, BBC Ten Pieces and ABRSM Classroom 200. Our curriculum is delivered by a music specialist teacher across Key Stage 2 and 3 with music lessons timetabled for 1 hour a week. All children are given and introduction to instrumental performance including ukulele, glockenspiel and early keyboard skills. The Music curriculum is designed to encourage children to be creative, curious and knowledgeable about the wider benefits of music to our daily lives.
The national curriculum and Model Music Curriculum, which both underpin the Churchill curriculum for music, aim to ensure that all pupils develop a love of music as well as their talent as musicians. Progress in these will increase self-confidence, creativity and a sense of achievement. Our music curriculum includes opportunities to:
- Perform, listen to and evaluate music across a range of genres, styles and traditions
- Sing, create and compose music on their own and with others
- Use music technology and be given the opportunity to progress to the next level of musical excellence
- Understand and explore how music is created and communicated, including through the inter-related dimensions of music and appropriate musical notations
Music as a GCSE option
Music is not part of the Churchill GCSE core offer but if your child is interested in doing a GCSE in this subject, this could be arranged with Samuel Ward Academy and could be studied from class 5 onwards Please arrange an appointment with the headteacher via the school office.