Music

Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity. A high-quality music education should engage and inspire pupils to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians. Music is highly valued at Heaton St.Barnabas and has many benefits including increased self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement. As pupils progress, they should develop a critical engagement with music, allowing them to compose, and to listen with discrimination to a wide variety of different styles of music.

The national curriculum for music aims to ensure that all pupils:

• Perform, listen to, review and evaluate music
• 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.

The music curriculum at Heaton St.Barnabas CE  Primary is based on the National Curriculum and supported by Charanga, an online scheme of work which provides resources to support teachers in delivering high quality and engaging music lessons. These lessons ensure that children develop the skills to perform, listen to, review, create and compose a variety of music. Children will also understand musical terms such as pitch and tempo and understand some musical notation. Every child from Reception to Year 6 receives a weekly music lesson from either their class teacher or Specialist music teacher we have on our team. In the early Years, music is incorporated consistently into daily routines and is used to enhance teaching of the core curriculum in addition to being taught as a stand-alone subject.

All children take part in a major performance each year.  Pupils are encouraged to sing, act, play instruments, dance, create and perform their own music. The children have lots of different opportunities to sing and play at school assemblies, class assemblies and perform at special events.

We teach children throughout KS2 Ukulele and recorder. The impact of the whole school singing assemblies was noticed during the Seasonal Celebration events and School performances.we also have a larger school Choir who contribute significantly to our services throughout the year as well as attend festivals and choir events.