Music

Subject Intent

• To increase pupils’ prospects by:

Enabling them to effectively think like a musician; gaining experiences of different musical elements, listening to a range of musical genres and enabling all children to experience playing an instrument.

• Building foundations for a love of life, a love of learning and a love of one another
• To listen to a range of musical genres and talk about my likes and dislikes.
• To sing a variety of songs within a group and to sing with expression.
• To use musical vocabulary to talk about the music I have heard and am creating.
• To play a range of instruments both individually and within a group.
• To create music using music technology and talk about the music I have composed.
• To compose music using symbols and simple notation.
• To play music from symbols and simple notation.
• To improvise on an instrument I am playing.
• To begin to develop an understanding of the history of music and how different genres have impacted people at that time.

Key Documents

Music at USL

Progression of Skills - Music

Scaffolding in Music

SMSC in Music

British Values in Music at USL

Long Term Planning Documents

At Upton St Leonards, we use the Government supported resources provided by Oak Academy (  ) to support our music teaching. We also use some elements of a commercial resource (Charanga - link here https://charanga.com/site/musical-school/) to ensure all children receive whole class instrument teaching.

Our teachers use these schemes of work as the basis of our planning and then amend as necessary to meet the needs of their class. We are therefore unable to share any of these planning documents on our website for parents/carers to look at as we do not have the rights to re-distribute. If you are interested in finding out more about our Music curriculum beyond what we have included on this page, please speak to our Music leader - Miss Keightley.

Peripatetic Lessons

As well as a broad music curriculum, pupils at USL have the option to take part in peripatetic music lessons through one of our music teachers. We currently offer the following lessons: keyboard, piano, guitar, ukele and violin.

We use Rock Steady (https://www.rocksteadymusicschool.com/) where children become part of a school band and perform at Rock Concerts in the School Hall 3 times a year.

We also use Smash Hit (SMASH HIT | Songwriting School) where children have the opportunity to write their own songs as well as perform to an audience.

All of these music lessons do come with a small weekly cost. We are able to financially support children who receive Pupil Premium funding to ensure they are given the opportunity to take part.

For more information about peripatetic music lessons or to register your child, please speak to the school office.