Music
Music at our academy engages, inspires and challenges pupils. It equips them with the knowledge and skills to appraise, perform, compose and record their musical experiences.
Pupils develop their knowledge and thought processes through performance, composition and appraisal. Pupils look at significant musical figures in history and compare them to modern-day musicians.
The music curriculum reflects the needs of our pupils and broadens and deepens their vocabulary. It develops greater oracy skills and helps them to self-regulate their emotions. Thus, improving their mental health.
In Reception, pupils are encouraged to confidently express themselves to music. They use a range of instruments to communicate feeling. Singing and listening to music and rhyme is an essential part of our early years curriculum. Pupils are encouraged and supported to perform. This develops their confidence to perform for an audience. Children are introduced to pulse and rhythm and begin to recognise this in familiar songs and rhymes. https://twitter.com/WybersWoodEYFS/status/1628761000236261377?s=20
In Key Stage 1, pupils explore the basic principles of rhythm, pulse and melody. Pupils have the opportunity to compose using percussion instruments. They start recording their music using pictorial representation. In addition to this, they learn a tuned instrument.
In Key Stage 2, pupils build upon their Key Stage 1 skills with increasing confidence and control. They have opportunities to write accompaniments to familiar songs. they can develop and experiment with their pieces of work and start to compose in parts. Pupils learn standard notation and apply this through the music sessions.
We celebrate pupil’s enthusiasm for music through the opportunity to attend individual music lessons and our Key Stage 2 choir. Children take part in weekly whole-school singing. We also hold annual nativities, carol concerts and end of year performances.https://twitter.com/DeltaWybersWood/status/1599893626246795266?s=20
