Music at Belton All Saints
It is our aim that all of our children have access to a high quality music education. All children are able to perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions, including the works of the great composers and musicians.
Our Statement of Intent for Music can be found at the bottom of this page.
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, and so increase their 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 the best in the musical canon.
National Curriculum -2014
At Belton All Saint Church of England Primary School, the Music curriculum is taught to all children from Nursery to Year 6. We have tailored our Music Curriculum to ensure that it meets the needs of all of our children. We incorporate The New Model Music Curriculum and deploy North Lincolnshire Music Hub Music Specialists to help us to deliver the aims of the National Curriculum.
The New Model Music Curriculum 2021 states that:
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 schools, music can bring communities together through the shared endeavour of whole-school singing, ensemble playing, experimenting with the creative process and, through the love of listening to friends and fellow pupils, performing. The sheer joy of music making can feed the soul of a school community, enriching each student while strengthening the shared bonds of support and trust which make a great school.
How we teach Music at our School
At Belton All Saints have adopted the scheme Charanga to support and improve the quality of music teaching that children receive at our school. Charanga works seamlessly with the national curriculum ensuring that learners revisit the interrelated dimensions of music: pulse, voice, pitch and rhythm- building upon previous learning and skills. The learning within this Scheme is based on: Listening and Appraising, Musical Activities, creating and exploring and singing and performing.
Music is taught as a separate subject, but links may be made to other learning such as the children’s topic work for that term. All learners from EYFS to Y6 receive a weekly music lesson supported by Charanga. KS2 learners are taught music for approximately 1 hour a week and Key stage 1 for 30 minutes a week.
The Charanga music scheme allows children to experience a new topic and style of music every half term. Lessons provide children with the opportunity to listen and respond to different styles of music, use their voices and instruments to listen and sing back and have a go at composing their own piece of music. The lessons are planned so that each year children follow on from the learning they completed the previous year and clear progression is evident across the school.
Our progression map for Muisc can be found here
In addition to the taught music curriculum learners listen to a range of music styles and genres in Act of Worship, as well as having a Choral assembly every week.
In Year 3 and 4 children learn a musical instrument. This is something that is additional to their weekly charanga lesson and is provided by the Music Hub. Children spend the first few weeks learning about the instrument they are going to play and also have a chance to practice the notes and rhythm.. Year 3 and 4 children also have the opportunity to perform for teachers and families in both Spring and Summer.
In Key Stage 2 children attending Choir Club - Belton Singers can also enjoy a trip to Young Voices. Children taking part in YV have the opportunity to perform in some of the world’s greatest arenas alongside incredible artists. To achieve this with all their school friends around them for support, it helps their self-belief, self-motivation, confidence, and ability to communicate as part of a team - which is invaluable! Young Voices provide online resources so that children can practise at home to support the rehearsals they are doing in school. Their songs are selected from a wide range of music styles to give the children the widest learning experience possible. The Young Voices experience is not simply a children’s choir concert, these are the largest children’s choir concert's in the world. Choirs will perform alongside 5,000-8,000 other children as a single choir to capacity audiences of family and friends.
We have been proud to be awarded The Music Mark award in October 2022.as a result of providing quality Music Education for the children at Belton All Saints.
World Music Day
We had a fantastic day celebrating World Music Day in June this year. It was wonderful to hear lots of different kinds of music drifting across school. Early years listened to different types of music, the children loved Handel’s water music and played instruments to the pulse. They could pick out the trumpets, flutes, violins and drums. Key Stage 1 made Djembe drums and listened to music from all over Africa. They performed some African dance moves and played percussion instruments with African music. Year 3, looked at different French composers and studied the instrument the French Horn. Year 4 learned to dance the Samba, they made carnival masks and then made Amazon tribal drumming patterns. Years 5 and 6 had great fun learning to line dance.
Year 3 and 4 Ukulele Tuition
Year 3 and 4 receive music tuition with a specialist peripatetic teacher, using the Ukulele, for three terms of the year. Children listen, perform, compose, use notation and develop skills using rhythm and pitch.
Brass Tuition
Whole school brass demonstration with Mr Sidwell. He is a peripatetic music teacher who comes into school and offers brass lessons to children in KS2.
Young Voices
The school choir ‘The Belton Singers’ were delighted to be able to sing alongside 5,000 other children at the Utilita arena in Sheffield. There was a professional band, beat boxing, dance routines, Urban Strides street dancers and pop stars. We had a fantastic night to remember. The children all worked hard learning all of the song words and dance routines in advance. We were delighted to perform alongside Heather Small singing ‘Proud’ and violinist Anna Phoebe.
Music Curriculum Intent
Here at Belton and Wroot Primary School Federation our curriculum is based on what we know is best for our pupils.
All pupils are afforded the opportunity to grow and succeed, through our enriched curriculum. This is underpinned by our core Christian values.
Commitment to our pupils is fulfilled through our high aspiration, passion and drive and is founded upon 4 key principles:
1.To unlock children’s true potential
We aim to develop confident, resilient, inquisitive, independent & knowledgeable children through the delivery of a coherent & structured Enquiry Based curriculum which builds on prior learning. Individuals are challenged to reach their true potential and be ready for the next stage in their education. In Music we will do this through:
- Build a music curriculum that is progressive and builds on previous learning
- Build a curriculum based on the ‘Model Music Curriculum’
- Promote a love of music and singing across a broad curriculum
- Teach music in a thematic and enjoyable way, alongside other areas of the curriculum
- Teach the music curriculum in an experiential, practical way
- Encourage children to participate in opportunities to demonstrate a love of music and to showcase their skills.
2. For children to flourish as unique and well-rounded individuals
We aim to foster happy and healthy children within a safe environment that are given the help they need to learn, grow and achieve as much as they possibly can in an atmosphere which nourishes a healthy mind and body. In Music we will do this through:
- Planned opportunities to learn music within a wider context alongside other curriculum subjects
- Participation in local music festivals, such as Year 2 yearly event, Young Voices and school productions
- Opportunities for whole school and class enrichment.
- Specialist teaching of an instrument in lower Key Stage 2
- Peripatetic brass instrument teacher offering lessons in KS2
- A love of music performing and appreciating music encouraged and promoted o Extra-curricular opportunities to participate in music
- Children will use music as a form of expression
- Children will participate in wider musical activities
3. For children to develop their skills as life-long learners
We aim to provide a broad, balanced curriculum with a wide variety of experiences which nurture the talents of our children to become creative, enquiring learners and effective communicators who aspire
In Music we will do this through:
- Specialist music coaches – instrument lessons.
- Exposure to a wide variety of musical genres through the listening element of the Model Music Curriculum.
- Charanga scheme encourages creativity and enquiry skills in music.
4. For children to widen their horizons and develop as responsible local and Global citizens
‘We aim to help our children appreciate their role as part of our community. To ask questions, make informed choices and to take responsibility for the decisions they make. As a result fostering an awareness of the difference they can make as local & global citizens.
In Music we will do this through:
- World music day celebration
- School Community - Choral Worship
- Musical link to Maths – Times Table Rockstars Rock Star day.
- Christmas Singalong service – governors invited
Useful websites where children can learn more about Music:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ten-pieces
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ks1-music/zbcjscw
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ks2-music/zfv96v4
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zwxhfg8
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z7tnvcw
If you would like to know more about Music at our school or if you have any questions please contact the Music subject leader (Mrs Bloomfield) at the school.