Music
At Robert Blair School, at the heart of our endeavours, we understand the importance of music and the joy that it brings to the young children we teach.
We are committed to developing our children’s knowledge, skills and understanding of music through a wide range of teaching styles. These include movement and dance, whole class and small group work. Music is taught in all classes from our Children’s Centre to Year 6.
Our aims are to ensure that music progression is evident throughout the school and that it builds on what has been taught and learned in previous years.
Our music curriculum allows:
- Pupils to develop their performance skills through learning to play tuned and untuned instruments, singing a variety of songs and rehearsing and performing with others
- Pupils to develop their composing skills through creating musical patterns and exploring and organising sounds and learning to record these in a variety of ways
- Pupils to learn to analyse and compare sounds, explore ideas and make improvements to their work, building on their appraising skills and develop a strong appreciation for and love of music
- Pupils to learn to listen with increased concentration to internalise and recall sounds
Teachers plan lessons that are closely aligned to our music scheme, Charanga Music.
These lessons include a variety of engaging activities that are differentiated and planned to support all pupil needs. Each unit of work has a cross curricular focus and a musical focus, which allows pupils to make strong progress throughout their primary school music experiences. Children with SEND are individually supported in class depending on adapted requirements such as the use of ear defenders or strategic placement of seating in the classroom.
We have taken into consideration the model music curriculum recommendations (2021) and ensure all pupils are taught 1 hour per week or equivalent and our KS1 and KS2 classes will be taught to play musical instruments: xylophone and ukulele.
Robert Blair Music Development Plan 2024-2025
National Curriculum Programme of Study for Music
Musical Progression Guide Years 1-6
Charanga Whole School Overview