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Music at Kirby

 

At Kirby, we value the importance of music and support our pupils to learn both inside and outside of the classroom.  For our music lessons we follow the Kapow Music Scheme.  For the first half term of 2024-2025 we had a specialist music teacher to deliver lessons across the school to further enhance our musical offer to our pupils.  We are also taking part in the Cultural Champions project with the Royal Opera House which supports creativity across subjects, but particularly for music.  

 

Scheme Intent

 

The intention of the Kapow Primary music scheme is first and foremost to help children to feel that they are musical, and to develop a life-long love of music. We focus on developing the skills, knowledge and understanding that children need in order to become confident performers, composers, and listeners. Our curriculum introduces children to music from all around the world and across generations, teaching children to respect and appreciate the music of all traditions and communities.

 

Children will develop the musical skills of singing, playing tuned and untuned instruments, improvising and composing music, and listening and responding to music. They will develop an understanding of the history and cultural context of the music that they listen to and learn how music can be written down. Through music, our curriculum helps children develop transferable skills such as team-working, leadership, creative thinking, problem-solving, decision-making, and presentation and performance skills. These skills are vital to children’s development as learners and have a wider application in their general lives outside and beyond school.

 

Kapow Primary’s Music scheme of work enables pupils to meet the end of key stage attainment targets outlined in the National curriculum and the aims of the scheme align with those in the National curriculum.

 

How the Scheme is implemented

 

Kapow Primary’s Music scheme takes a holistic approach to music, in which the individual strands below are woven together to create engaging and enriching learning experiences:

 

● Listening and evaluating

● Creating sound

● Notation

● Improvising and composing

● Performing

 

Each five-lesson unit combines these strands within a cross-curricular topic designed to capture pupils’ imagination and encourage them to explore music enthusiastically. Over the course of the scheme, children will be taught how to sing fluently and expressively, and play tuned and untuned instruments accurately and with control. They will learn to recognise, demonstrate and name the interrelated dimensions of music - pitch, duration, tempo, timbre, structure, texture and dynamics - and use these expressively in their own improvisations and compositions

 

In each lesson, pupils will actively participate in musical activities drawn from a range of styles and traditions, developing their musical skills and their understanding of how music works. Lessons incorporate a range of teaching strategies from independent tasks, paired and group work as well as improvisation and teacher-led performances. Lessons are ‘hands-on’ and incorporate movement and dance elements, as well as making cross curricular links with other areas of learning.

 

The Impact of Kapow

 

After the implementation of Kapow Primary Music, pupils should leave primary school equipped with a range of skills to enable them to succeed in their secondary education and to be able to enjoy and appreciate music throughout their lives.

 

The expected impact of following the Kapow Primary Music scheme of work is that children will:

 

✓ Be confident performers, composers and listeners and will be able to express themselves musically at and beyond school.

✓ Show an appreciation and respect for a wide range of musical styles from around the world and will understand how music is influenced by the wider cultural, social, and historical contexts in which it is developed.

✓ Understand the various ways in which music can be written down to support performing and composing activities.

✓ Demonstrate and articulate an enthusiasm for music and be able to identify their own personal musical preferences.

✓ Meet the end of key stage expectations outlined in the National curriculum for Music.

  • Music Curriculum Whole School Overview

After School Clubs for Music

 

The Kirby Choir after school club happens throughout the year.  All children also perform singing every week in our singing assembly.

 

The reach2 song is often part of our performance in these assemblies:-

 

Our Song - Reaching Higher

 

 

During School Time Club - Rock Steady

 

Our children learn to play drums, guitar, keyboards and sing together in a bank.  They form rock bands and perform at the end of every term to parents and children. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Extra Musical Experiences

 

Djembe drumming workshop led by Essex Music Services:-

 

 

 

 

 

Junior Ambassadors Project

 

The Junior Ambassadors Project run by Tendring District Council gives our pupils a diverse set of experiences.  This project has given year 5 pupils at Kirby some fantastic oppourtunities to widen their experiences.  For the past two years we have had this project and we are very much looking forward to completing it again next year in the Autumn term. 

 

In terms of extra musical experiences, last year we had an African Story teller who told his story through music.  The children also go to experience Bollywood dancing,

 

Please see below:-

Bollywood Music and Dancing

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African Storytelling through Music

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