Music
Intent
Southwark Park Primary School’s Music curriculum provides every child with the skills and opportunities they need to fully explore their creative music making. We aim to promote a strong love and curiosity of music by exposing children to a wide range of inspiring music/musicians from many different cultures and developing key skills for their own music making. These include singing and using the voice expressively, playing instruments, improvising, composing, reading pitch/rhythm notation and collaborating with others. By the end of KS2, children have used all of these skills to make high quality music and have confidence performing to their peers and the wider school community.
Implementation
Southwark Park’s Music Curriculum is delivered through the Partnership Programme with Southwark Music. The Curriculum is inclusive and routine driven, each lesson following a formula of – warm up, songs, pitch and rhythm exercises, main activity, and listening and responding to recorded music. It is based on the National Curriculum for Music, Kodaly Method, and recommendations from the Voices Foundation. There is a clear progression through all year groups with knowledge, skills and musical vocabulary reinforced and expanded upon. These are outlined in the documents below.
The curriculum is taught by a tutor with specialist subject knowledge in weekly lessons in the dedicated music room. Support is provided by classroom teachers and support staff. Other music provisions in school include whole school/Key Stage singing in weekly Singing Assemblies, KS2 choir, a dedicated weekly ASD session and whole class instrumental projects in Year 5 (drumming)
Impact
Through ongoing formative assessment and questioning, children’s musical responses are assessed with meaningful, specific ‘live’ feedback. Each Curriculum unit culminates in a performance, either to their peers or the wider school community, these form the basis of effective summative assessment and provides the children with the opportunity to demonstrate their learning. There are also opportunities for classes/groups to showcase their music making in weekly singing assemblies.
