Intent
At Charmouth, children gain a firm understanding of what music is through listening, singing, playing, evaluating and composing across a wide variety of historical periods, styles, traditions, and musical genres. We are committed to ensuring children understand the value and importance of music to their own and others’ lives and wellbeing and also the impact music has in the wider community.
Children are taught through a combination of practical and theoretical activities which build upon cumulative learning and a progression of skills within our music curriculum. All children are taught to sing and will have opportunities to perform to an audience at each phase of their school life (EYFS, KS1, LKS2, UKS2). In Key Stage 2, they also use a range of instruments to learn how to read music in a practical context through whole class ensemble tuition. Children also have opportunities to learn instruments including violin, piano, woodwind (clarinet, flute and j-sax) and guitar with experienced peripatetic music teachers.
We are committed to all children having access to music regardless of their academic ability, race, ethnicity, background and language. SEND pupils are actively encouraged to participate fully as music is often an area of the curriculum which allows them to excel. For pupils with additional needs, there will be every opportunity to work towards the overall objectives of the year group. Pupils may be supported by additional time to practice a new skill, or through additional resources to scaffold learning, for example word banks or sentence stems for evaluation activities. High expectations will challenge all children to make progress in their musical learning.