Whole School Purpose School Aims/ Assessment Areas Key Stage Objectives Year Group Coverage Music is a universal The national curriculum for music aims to Pupils should be taught to sing and play musically with increasing language that embodies ensure that all pupils: confidence and control. They play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their one of the highest forms should develop an understanding perform, listen to, review and evaluate voices and playing musical instruments with increasing of creativity. of musical composition, organising music across a range of historical and manipulating ideas within accuracy, fluency, control and expression musical structures and reproducing periods, genres, styles and traditions, A high-quality sounds from aural memory. improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using education should including the works of the great Pupils should be taught to: engage and inspire the inter-related dimensions of music composers and musicians play and perform in solo and pupils to develop a love ensemble contexts, using listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with of music and their talent learn to sing and to use their voices, to their voices and playing increasing aural memory as musicians, and so create and compose music on their own musical instruments with increase their and with others, have the opportunity to increasing accuracy, fluency, use and understand staff and other musical notations creativity control and expression learn a musical instrument, use and sense of appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live technology appropriately and have the achievement. improvise and compose and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from music for a range of purposes opportunity to progress to the next level great composers and musicians using the inter-related As pupils progress, they of musical excellence dimensions of music should develop a critical develop an understanding of the history of music. engagement with music, understand and explore how music is listen with attention to detail allowing them to created, produced and communicated, and recall sounds with compose, and to listen increasing aural memory including through the inter-related with discrimination to dimensions: pitch, duration, dynamics, use and understand staff and the best in the musical tempo, timbre, texture, structure and other musical notations canon. appropriate musical notations. appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians develop an understanding of the history of
Whole School Purpose School Aims/ Assessment Areas Key Stage Objectives Year Group Coverage Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity. A high-quality education should engage and inspire pupils to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians, and so increase their creativity and sense of achievement. As pupils progress, they should develop a critical engagement with music, allowing them to compose, and to listen with discrimination to the best in the musical canon. The national curriculum for music aims to ensure that all pupils: perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions, including the works of the great composers and musicians learn to sing and to use their voices, to create and compose music on their own and with others, have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument, use technology appropriately and have the opportunity to progress to the next level of musical excellence understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated, including through the inter-related dimensions: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations. Pupils should be taught to sing and play musically with increasing confidence and control. They should develop an understanding of musical composition, organising and manipulating ideas within musical structures and reproducing sounds from aural memory. Pupils should be taught to: play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory use and understand staff and other musical notations appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians develop an understanding of the history of play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory use and understand staff and other musical notations appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians develop an understanding of the history of music.
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