CLAVERING CURRICULUM FOR MUSIC
For more information, please contact Mrs Bellamy (Music Leader), Mr McAvoy (Deputy Headteacher and The Arts Leader) and/or your child's/children's teacher(s).
Introduction
- Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity.
- A high-quality music education should engage and inspire pupils to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians, and so increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement.
- As pupils progress, they should develop a critical engagement with music, allowing them to compose, and to listen with discrimination to the best in the musical canon.
Aims of the Clavering Curriculum for Music
The Clavering Curriculum for Music aims to ensure that all pupils:
- perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions, including the works of the great composers and musicians;
- learn to sing and to use their voices, to create and compose music on their own and with others, have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument, use technology appropriately and have the opportunity to progress to the next level of musical excellence;
- understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated, including through the inter-related dimensions: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations.
Clavering Learning Foci for Music
To understand music (musicianship)
To develop knowledge, understanding and the skills of listening to music
To develop knowledge, understanding and the skills of singing
To develop knowledge, understanding and the skills of musical notation
To develop knowledge, understanding and the skills of playing instruments
To develop knowledge, understanding and the skills of creating music through improvisation
To develop knowledge, understanding and the skills of creating music through composing
To develop knowledge, understanding and the skills of performing
The Interrelated Dimensions of Music within the Clavering Curriculum for Music
- pitch;
- duration;
- dynamics;
- tempo;
- timbre;
- texture;
- structure; and
- appropriate musical notations.
Note:
- Each unit contains elements of all three learning foci and all eight interrelated dimensions of music.
- Units marked with as asterisk (*) are taught by the class teacher and Tees Valley Music Service.
- Children have at least twenty-four hours of music tuition per year.
- The number in brackets indicates the minimum number of hours allocated to each unit.
Year 1:
Introducing beat (6)
Adding rhythm and pitch (6)
Introducing tempo and dynamics (6)
Combining pulse, rhythm and pitch (6)
Year 2:
Exploring simple patterns (6)
Focusing on dynamics and tempo (6)
Exploring feelings through music (6)
Inventing a musical story (6)
Year 3:
Ukulele 1* (6)
Developing notation skills (6)
Enjoying improvisation (6)
Composing using your imagination (6)
Year 4:
Investigating time signatures (6)
Ukulele 2* (6)
Combining elements to make music (6)
Developing pulse and grove through improvisation (6)
Year 5:
Getting started with music tech (6)
Exploring key and time signatures (6)
Ukulele 3* (6)
Introducing chords
Year 6:
Developing melodic phrases (6)
Understanding structure and form (6)
Exploring notation further (6)
Ukulele 4* (6)