Music is all around us. It is the soundtrack to our lives. Music connects us through people and places in our ever-changing world. It is creative, collaborative, celebratory and challenging. In our school, music brings us together, through whole-school singing, ensemble playing, experimenting with the creative process and, through the love of listening to friends and fellow pupils, performing.
Being a Musician:
Being a Musician is
- arranging various sounds in a sequence to compose a tune.
- understanding rhythm and how to conduct a beat.
- listening and responding to different types of music from different genres and cultures.
- Singing or performing a range of songs and melodies or playing an instrument.
Learning music helps me develop key skills such as self and social awareness, improved concentration and attention, self-discipline.
Intent:
St Mary’s takes, as its starting point, the ambition that every young person should be able to experience music and to make progress. It is founded on the belief that music enriches individual lives as well as a school’s wider community.
The music curriculum at our school aims to support all pupils in their musical progression through the Key Stages. By offering a rich and varied musical framework that nurtures fundamental musical techniques alongside building musical knowledge, it offers a pathway towards mature musical understanding. Staff notation not only complements developing aural skills, improvisation, memorisation and composition, but also provides the opportunity for pupils to be taught music independently both in class and after they have left school.
Music as a subject is designed to introduce the next generation to a broad repertoire of music from a variety of Global traditions and to the best popular music. The curriculum is clearly sequenced and has an ambitious approach, providing a roadmap to introduce pupils to the delights and disciplines of music, helping them to appreciate and understand the works of the musical giants of the past, while also equipping them with the technical skills and creativity to compose and perform.
Having the opportunity to study and explore music is not a privilege; it is a vital part of a broad and ambitious curriculum. St Mary’s Catholic Voluntary Academy aims to provide a high quality music education, to ensure every child develops a life-long love of music and musical performance.
At St Mary’s, our music curriculum is taught by Mrs Sarah McNish, a member of the Our Lady of Lourdes Music service. All lessons are taught on a Thursday, across the school.
