Music

Statement of Intent

At Clifton Hampden Primary School we aim to make music an enjoyable experience. We encourage the children to participate in a variety of musical experiences through which we aim to build up their love of music, self-confidence and sense of achievement. Our teaching focuses on developing the children's ability to sing in tune and with other people, play tuned and untuned musical instruments with increasing control, fluency and expression and listen to a wide range of music from different periods, genres, styles and traditions. Children will explore how music is created, produced and communicated and will improvise and compose music for a range of purposes.

Aims

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

• 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
• 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.