Music
Mrs Gebby Taekema
Music Subject Leader
At Telford Infants School we aim to inspire a love and life-long appreciation of a wide range of musical genres, with all children becoming and seeing themselves as creative, music makers and singers themselves. Music allows children to increase their self-confidence, oracy and listening skills, creativity and a sense of achievement and enjoyment as musicians.
Our school has a bespoke music curriculum with a clear progression, where pupils become increasing confident at using their voices and instruments (tuned and untuned), to compose, perform and improvise in response to a wide range of stimuli. Our aim is that pupils will be ‘doing music’ as much as possible in lessons for example by singing, composing or playing and exploring musical instruments. We have a strong focus on singing at our school, lead by our singing specialist.
Where appropriate our music curriculum is linked to the half termly year topics, however it is primarily skills based and focussed upon developing the children’s musical skills, during their time with us. Our children participate weekly, in whole class music lessons and a singing assembly. In year 2, our children learn recorders in whole class sessions throughout the year.
All children have the opportunity to listen to and develop their oracy skills by appraising a wide range of music, including live performances, from different historical periods, genres, styles and traditions, including listening to the work of the great masters. Children are encouraged to use musical vocabulary to describe what they hear.
Through our partnerships with Warwickshire Music and Rock Steady, we enhance our children’s musical experiences through opportunities such as small group violin lessons, rock groups and live performances. We also have a large school choir.
Our aim is that all children will develop a love of music and of being a music maker themselves, which will be encouraged through their music lessons and by listening to a range of different historical periods, genres, styles and traditions. Pupils will develop their listening and appraising skills and these musical experiences will help them to develop preferences for music for these different styles of music by the end of KS1.
All children have regular opportunities to perform including to their class group, assemblies, Christmas performances and Harvest Celebrations, in which they will develop their singing and musical confidence.
Telford Infant School Music Development Plan Summary.pdf
The Second City Brass Quintet came into school to give us a live performance. We learnt all about the brass instruments that they play.
We were so lucky to have Eusebius Quartet come to visit our school for a live performance.
We were able to look and hear the different instruments in a string quartet.
We developed our listening and appraising skills by listening to the music and talking about what we heard, including the pitch and tempo.
We also talked about how the music made us feel and what it make us think about.
- Listen attentively and respond to what they hear with relevant questions, comments and actions when being read to and during whole class discussions and small group interactions.
- Make comments about what they have heard and ask questions to clarify their understanding.
- Sing a range of well-known nursery rhymes and songs.
- Perform songs, rhymes, poems and stories with others, and (when appropriate), try to move in time with music.
- 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.
- Use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes.
- Play tuned and untuned instruments musically.
- Listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music.
- Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music.