Music

Welcome to Darnhall's Music Page

It is essential to provide opportunities for all children to create, play, perform and enjoy music, to develop skills and appreciate a wide variety of musical forms.

At Darnhall Primary we aim to make music an enjoyable learning experience. We encourage children to participate in a variety of musical experiences through which we endeavour to build up the confidence of all children. Children are given the opportunity to discover, explore and develop technical skills through practical music lessons.

We use the Kapow music scheme, which provides everything you need for teaching primary music, week by week. Written by leading experts in primary music education, Kapow has quality and engaging music lessons with careful progression built in, from Early Years to Age 11. It is easy to use for teachers with little confidence in music, and allows flexibility for music specialists.

Below I have atatched the intent, implementation and impact document link:

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Curriculum Information

Kapow provides a scheme of work that helps to develop all areas of music. This includes:

Performing
Listening
Composing
The history of music
Inter-related dimensions of music: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, texture, structure, timbre.

Through Kapow music pupils will complete six units of work each year, all of these units build up to a final performance that the children will be able to perform to their class. On top of all of the key skills that the children will be learning, they will also be able to explore many different genres of music from Jazz to Rock and Roll! As a team we have carefully linked our music topics to other curriculum topics taught across the year. For example when the Vikings are taught in history, pupils will also explore the music of the Vikings, this will help children to further understand what they are learning as well as support sticky knowledge.

The content of Kapow Primary’s Music units has been categorised into four key strands: Performing; Listening; Composing; and The history of music, with one overarching strand: Inter-related dimensions of music. We have plotted our Music units against the Development matters statements and the Early learning goals for EYFS, and the national curriculum statements for KS1 and KS2 Music, and identified which of the strands each unit covers.

Below is a glossary of the seven elements that will be covered:

Duration

The word used in music to refer to the length of a sound or silence

Dynamics/volume

The loudness of the music, usually described in terms of loud/quiet

Pitch

Refers to the complete range of sounds in a piece of music from the lowest to the highest

Structure

Most music is underpinned by a structure which may be as simple as beginning, middle and end

Texture

Layers of sound, such as those created by a melody accompanied by a drum beat

Timbre

All instruments, including voices, have a particular sound quality which is referred to as timbre, eg squeaky

Tempo (plural tempi)

The speed at which music is performed, usually described in terms of fast/slow

This document lists each of the music units covered by Kapow and a summary of what the children will be learning:

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Some good BBC Bitesize articles and videos covering these topics for KS2 here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/music-ks2

And KS1 here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/music-ks1

Files to Download

National Curriculum for Music (Years 1 to 6) New EYFS Early Adopter Framework 2020 Darnhall Music Policy Curriculum-overview for parents.pdf Intent, implementation and impact.pdf