Music
Intent
At Marnel we use the ‘Sing Up’ scheme to support our music teaching. It is designed to provide a high-quality musical education for every child whatever their starting point. The aim is to inspire and excite our children through fun, engaging and practical musical experiences. This year, we are pleased to announce that the Hampshire Music Service will be continuing to deliver the “Listen to Me” programme for our children in Year 4, 5 and 6 for one term a year. Through this initiative, students will have the opportunity to learn to play musical instruments under the guidance of specialist instructors.
We believe that our musical curriculum enables pupils to think critically about the music they are exposed to and to develop an awareness of its emotional impact. By exposing children to a wide range of musical styles, genres and cultures, we hope to develop each child’s enquiring mind and instil in them a lifelong love of music. Communication is central to our curriculum and music provides rich opportunities for pupils to listen, discuss, perform, evaluate and articulate their musical understanding with increasing confidence.
Our musical curriculum not only meets the requirements of “The National Curriculum” but also the needs of all our children at Marnel. The children are offered many opportunities during their time at Marnel. Cultural capital is an integral part of school life. We want to ensure that our children develop into aspirational, successful young people who are confident in music lessons and experiences at school.
Implementation
Our music curriculum is planned and delivered across our school to enable clear progression in skills and knowledge. Knowledge and skills are carefully sequenced so that pupils build upon prior learning and develop a deeper understanding of musical concepts over time.
We value active learning opportunities to immerse children fully into the musical learning experience and strive to provide creative opportunities where children are encouraged to take risks, ask questions and explore their learning in collaboration with others.
Each unit in our music scheme has a skills progression document which enables teachers to pitch the learning at the right level and support through scaffolding and extend challenge where needed.
Our musical learning each term is coupled with our core learning behaviours to support the children with their learning and overall development. These learning behaviours are:
- Open minded
- Resilience
- Respect
- Co-operation
- Reflectiveness
- Tolerance
These underpin the core values of the school and are integral to ensuring that the experiences children have are purposeful, relevant and help them to grow.
Impact
As pupils progress through the school, they develop musical knowledge, skills and understanding. Children become confident performers, composers and listeners who can communicate their ideas using appropriate musical vocabulary.
Through our musical curriculum we aim to encourage independence and an enquiring mind with a thirst for learning. Our children enjoy the broad and balanced range of activities. We provide many extra-curricular opportunities to allow our children to have a desire to reach their full potential in Music at Marnel and in their further education.
