Music
At Wheldon Infant School and Nursery, we aim to have a welcoming, calm, happy and purposeful atmosphere in school, in which everyone feels motivated and takes pleasure in their learning. Music plays an important part in helping children feel part of a community. Our intent is that children have high quality opportunities to develop their musical skills and understanding through practical lessons. Our intent in music ensures that the EYFS Framework and the National Curriculum are being taught progressively through carefully constructed progression maps, which allow teachers to understand the subject and shows the curriculum coverage across the school. We provide opportunities for all children to create, play, perform and enjoy music, to develop the skills to appreciate a wide variety of musical forms including music from different cultures and to begin to make judgements about the quality of music.
Music Development Plan Summary
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Music Whole School Overview
This document shows how Music is taught in our school from Nursery and Year 2.
Music in the Early Years Foundation Stage
(EYFS)
Music is important in the Early Years Foundation Stage as it helps children’s development in several areas. Singing songs and rhymes together is a great way to develop children’s communication and language skills in a fun and engaging way. Singing and dancing also helps children express their feelings and ideas, and share them with others, which reinforces positive relationships with adults and other children. Music is also excellent for children’s physical development. They learn to move in a range of new ways as they dance in time with the music, or play music instruments to a tune.
Music in Key Stage 1
It is well recognised that music can help to develop the skills, attitudes and attributes that can support learning in other national curriculum subjects and can help build social and cultural values, too. This includes listening skills, the ability to concentrate, creativity, intuitions, aesthetic sensitivity, perseverance, the ability to work in a group, self confidence and sensitivity towards others.
Music can also aid memory, which is why singing nursery rhymes and action songs are particularly good for a child's early development.
EYFS Gallery
Nursery enjoy singing and dancing to a variety of songs at different times of the day. They also enjoy performing to others as they learn how to play untuned percussion instruments.
KS1 Gallery
KS1 have been singing songs and using actions to represent the pitch of the notes. They have also been learning to play a simple tune using the chime bars and thinking about how the tune goes high and low.
Five ways to spark your child's interest in music
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/bring-the-noise/five-ways-to-spark-childrens-interest-in-music/zb878xs
- Encourage listening skills. Getting children to explore music and describe what they hear is a useful way to help them grow their listening skills. ...
- Play along to music. ...
- Explore the different instruments that make up a song. ...
- Make your own sounds. ...
- Get moving to music.
