Music

Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity. 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. (The National Curriculum) Music teaching at Seaton Primary School aims to follow the specifications of the National Curriculum; providing a broad, balanced and differentiated curriculum and ensuring the progressive development of musical concepts, knowledge and skills.  

At Seaton we believe that music plays an integral role in helping children to feel part of a community, therefore we provide opportunities for all children to create, play, perform and enjoy music both in class and to an audience. Through assemblies and performances, children showcase their talent and their understanding of performing with awareness of others. Lessons enable children to develop their skills, appreciate a wide variety of music and begin to appraise a range of musical genres.  

The aims of our Music curriculum are to develop pupils who:  

• Enjoy and have an appreciation for music.  

• Listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, cultures, styles and traditions.  

• Can sing and use their voices to create different effects.  

• Create and compose music, both on their own and with others.  

• Use a range of musical language.  

• Make judgements and express personal preferences about the quality and style of music.  

• Take part in performances with an awareness of audience.  

Non Negotiables for Music at Seaton:  

Throughout every academic year in music children should have opportunities to: 

• develop their aural skills through listening to, responding to and appraising pieces of music  

• respond to and understand pieces of music from different periods of time and different cultures  

• listen to and evaluate pieces of music 

• develop rhythmic fluency and understanding of pitch through singing a learning to play a target instrument 

• learn to play tuned and untuned percussion and two tuned string instruments throughout KS2  

• read appropriate music notation  

• perform through singing or playing instruments to a wider audience than their class during each school year. 

• Responding to, planning, performing and evaluating pieces of music are intertwined throughout each music unit and development of these skills is deepened throughout each year.