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Music
Music Curriculum
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.
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Year 2 |
Year 3 |
Year 4 |
Year 5 |
Year 6 |
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beat, rhythm, pulse, tempo, dynamics, composer, pitch, structure, compose, lyrics |
crochets, minims, crotchet rests, duration, timbre, unison
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semibreves, canon, stave, expression, piano, forte |
quavers, pianissimo, fortissimo, largo, moderato, allegro |
semiquavers, crescendo, diminuendo, accelerando, ritardando, polyphonic, monophonic |
What does Music look like at Boldmere Junior School?
Examples of Music at Boldmere:
Whole Class Instrumental Teaching
Dhol:
https://twitter.com/BoldmereSchools/status/1575862670367997954
Clarinet:
Full tweet: https://twitter.com/BoldmereSchools/status/1580207597457580032
Violin:
https://twitter.com/BoldmereSchools/status/1575863739303301120
Performance opportunities
Full tweet: https://twitter.com/BoldmereSchools/status/1511980812748701697
Full tweet:
https://twitter.com/BoldmereSchools/status/1570058510809051143
Year group productions
Each child is a part of year group production at different parts of the year. Year 3 wow their audience with their beautiful voices in a Singing Sensation, Year 4 get everybody into the festive spirit with their Christmas Production, Year 5 remind us about the importance of Easter with their re-telling of the Easter story and Year 6 complete their primary school experience with their end of school production.
Year 4’s Christmas Production
Full tweet: https://twitter.com/BoldmereSchools/status/1470314443867308036
Year 6’s End of School Production
Last year, our Year 6 children got a good luck message from the cast of The Lion King!
Full tweet: https://twitter.com/BoldmereSchools/status/1542549331949113350
Live music
The children enjoy experiencing live music, for example, when a brass band from Birmingham Music Service performed some well-known classics in assembly for us!
Full tweet: https://twitter.com/BoldmereSchools/status/1568252797782556672
Toscana Strings performance
Full tweet: https://twitter.com/BoldmereSchools/status/1481997574907248640
Boldmere String Ensemble
Children who play the violin are able to choose to be part of the Boldmere String Ensemble. This gives them the opportunity to perform, as part of an ensemble, at the Birmingham Symphony Hall.
Full tweet:
https://twitter.com/BoldmereSchools/status/1548668765931556867
Full tweet: https://twitter.com/BoldmereSchools/status/1548696156888305664
Full tweet: https://twitter.com/BoldmereSchools/status/1548797991204577286
