Music

At Cockington Primary school, our goal is for all pupils, regardless of need or barrier, to develop an embedded love of music. Music nourishes our children’s souls and supports their mental health and wellbeing in addition to providing them with opportunities for deepening understanding and appreciation. We follow a broad, balanced and inspiring curriculum and ensuring the progressive development of musical concepts, vocabulary, knowledge and skills. At Cockington, we believe that music plays an integral role in helping children to feel part of a community, therefore we provide opportunities for all children to create, play, perform and enjoy music both in class, in wider groups and to an audience. Through our Learning Enquiry outcomes, children showcase their talent and their understanding of performing with awareness of others. Lessons enable children to develop their skills, listen to and appreciate a wide variety of music from a range of historical and cultural sources and begin to appraise a range of musical genres.

Skills

The aims of our Music curriculum are to develop pupils who:

• Can sing and use their voices individually and in a group
• Create and compose music on their own and with others
• Use technology appropriately when composing
• Have opportunities to learn a musical instrument
• Understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated
• Listen to, review and evaluate the work of great composers and musicians from a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions
• Enjoy and have an appreciation of a range of different musical styles e.g. Classical, Jazz, Hip Hop, Pop, Rock etc.
• Use and understand musical language and include musical features in their own work
• Make judgements about the quality of music
• Have opportunities to play a wide variety of instruments
• Have different opportunities to take part in performances

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