Our Music Curriculum Intent

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At Hamstel Infant School and Nursery we understand the importance of the teaching of music and allowing our children to express themselves. We seek to inspire the children to be creative and confident in music and aim for every child viewing themselves as a potential musical artist. Our Hamstel Headlines form part of our drive for quality first teaching in music across the school.  

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 We aim:

• For all children to receive a broad, balanced music curriculum that immerses them in learning that is memorable, engaging and meaningful. 

• To offer all children a curriculum that ensures the progressive development of their musical understanding, knowledge and skills.  

• To directly teach and develop subject specific vocabulary to children. To create opportunities to enrich and secure learning, ensuring children remember more and can therefore do more.

• All children have opportunities to practice and develop their musical skills and knowledge through carefully planned opportunities.

• To ensure all children can verbally articulate and express their knowledge and understanding of an age-appropriate, ambitious music curriculum.

• That by the end of Key Stage One, all of our children will have participated in a range of learning opportunities and experiences, inside and outside the classroom that enhances their skills, knowledge and understanding of musical artists, genres, singing and instruments.      

                           

 This will be achieved by:

• Music being taught through engaging and immersive themes with opportunities for children to express themselves and make connections threaded through

• Promoting musical curiosity and inspiration

• Using our local community and resources to enhance the children’s music learning

• Teaching deliberate subject specific vocabulary to enhance vocabulary development

• Modelling key vocabulary and the use stem sentences support children’s articulation and oracy skills

• A carefully planned music curriculum that shows progression and sequenced lessons from Nursery to end of KS1.

• Adapting outcomes, tasks and resources to meet the needs of all children

• Use of formative assessment to build on previous learning and move learning forward

• Having a range of resources and experiences to enhance the teaching and learning of music

 

How will we know we have achieved our aims?

• Children will use musical vocabulary correctly to communicate their understanding

• Children will begin to make connections from music to other learning

• Children will develop their knowledge, skills, and inquisitiveness about music genres, musical artists and instruments

• The learning of music is loved by teachers and children across the school.

• Teachers have high expectations and children make good progress across their music lessons

• All children speak confidently and positively about their music learning 

• By celebrating key musical artists past and present and children can talk about them