Music

Music

Intent:

At Folkestone Primary, we use the Kapow scheme of work to ensure all pupils develop a lifelong love of music. Children will develop skills, knowledge and understanding in order to become confident performers, composers and listeners. The curriculum introduces children to music from around the world and from different generations, teaching children to respect and appreciate the music of all traditions and communities. 

Children develop the musical skills of singing, playing tuned and untuned instruments, improvising and composing music, and listening and responding to  music. They develop an understanding of the history and cultural context of the music that they listen to and learn how music can be written down. The music curriculum enables children to develop transferable skills such as team work, leadership, creative thinking, problem solving, decision making and presentation and performance skills which will assist them in a wider application in their general lives outside and beyond school.

The Kapow music scheme of work enables pupils to meet the end of the Key Stage attainment targets outlined in the national curriculum.

Implementation:

• The Kapow Primary Music scheme takes a holistic approach to music, in which the individual strands of performing, listening, composing, the history of music and the inter-related dimensions of music are woven together to create an engaging and enriching learning experience

• The Kapow scheme follows a spiral curriculum model where previous skills and knowledge are returned and built upon.

• Each five lesson unit combines the strands within a cross-curricular topic designed to capture pupil’s imagination and encourage them to explore music enthusiastically. 

• Over the course of the scheme, children will be taught how to sing fluently and expressively, and play tuned  and untuned instruments accurately and with control. 

• They will learn to recognise and name the inter-related dimensions of music- pitch, duration, tempo, timbre, structure, texture and dynamics- and use these expressively in their own improvisations and compositions.

• The instrumental scheme lessons complement the scheme and allow lower Key Stage pupils to develop their expertise in using a tuned instrument for a minimum of one term as recommended in the Model music curriculum.

Impact:

The impact of the scheme is monitored through formative and summative assessment opportunities. At the end of each unit, there is a performance element where teachers make a summative assessment of pupil’s learning. After the implementation of Kapow Primary Music, pupils should leave primary school equipped with the range of skills to enable them to succeed in their secondary education and to be able to enjoy and appreciate music throughout their lives.

It is expected that children will be:

• Confident performers, composers and listeners and will be able to express themselves musically at and beyond school.

• Show an appreciation and respect for a wide range of musical styles from around the world and will understand how music is influenced by the wider cultural, social and historical contexts in which it is developed.

• Understand the ways in which music can be written down to support performing and composing activities.

• Demonstrate and articulate an enthusiasm for music and be able to identify their own personal preferences.

• Meet the end of key stage expectations outlined in the national curriculum for Music.