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Music Curriculum

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Curriculum Design for Music

Intent

At Boldmere, it is our intention to inspire and ignite a love and appreciation of music that extends beyond the walls of the school. Children at school will learn to play a range of musical instruments alongside developing an understanding of the history of music.

Implementation

At Boldmere, we have adapted and personalised the music curriculum to enable us to match our music provision to our context and children’s needs. For example, we have a musician of the week that allows our children to discover a range of genres, as well as providing cultural representation of our increasingly diverse school community. We have devised our own progression map that provides a solid structure, giving sequence and progression of skills and understanding. The progression map is designed to enable cross-curricular teaching and learning in all year groups and runs alongside the music scheme, ‘Charanga’, which particularly supports teachers who are not music specialists. We enhance our music curriculum offer with opportunities including, Young Voices, peripatetic music lessons, visits to local churches, musical workshops, whole school singing in assemblies and opportunities for all children to participate in musical productions each year. In addition, we have extended our provision further by giving all children in Year 4 are given the opportunity to take part in Whole Class Instrumental Teaching provided by Birmingham’s Music Service, in which they participate in weekly lessons, as well as being loaned some of the instruments take home for practice.

Impact

Music has a real purpose at Boldmere as children are given frequent opportunities to perform music, for example by playing at the Symphony Hall or singing as part of a mass ensemble.
The profile of music has been raised significantly through the sharing of our musician of the week, inspiring the appreciation of cultural diversity in music.
Learning in music is practical, engaging and focuses on the appreciation and enjoyment of acquiring musical knowledge, skills and understanding.

Music at Boldmere Junior School

The links beneath this table allow you to view our Music Progression Map and each year group’s knowledge organiser. The knowledge organisers identify and define each year group’s vocabulary, which you can also see below.