Music
At Kingsland CE Primary School we follow the Primary National Curriculum. Mr Debenham is the school's Music leader. In 2021, the school was presented the Elgar in Hereford 1st prize award, in recognition of our outstanding musical provision.
Music is a highly valued subject in our curriculum. National Curriculum objectives for music are taught in a number of ways at Kingsland CE Primary School:
- Explicit music lessons
- Music lessons linked to class topics
- Wider opportunity music lessons (Y3 recorders)
- Musical productions e.g. Y5/6 production; KS1 Nativity production
- Daily singing and listening in Collective Worship
- Weekly Songs of Praise worship
- Musical events e.g. Winter Concert
- Visits and visitors e.g. Birmingham theatre visit; pantomime; Hereford 6th Form College concert
- Instrumental music lessons (paid for individually)
- Individual instrumental performances in worship time
- After school choir and steel band
Purpose of study
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.
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.
The power of music
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.
The school's curriculum plans align with The Model Music Curriculum 2021, which can be found below.
Music Curriculum
Which Instrument Should I Choose?
Learning to play a musical instrument has enormous benefits for children. Across the country however, fewer children and young people are sadly choosing to take up playing orchestral and band instruments. It is believed that part of the reason for this may be that children and parents are simply unaware of the range of options available and how rewarding these instruments can be to learn.
Therefore, in order to address this, Herefordshire Music Service has launched a new page on their website entitled 'Choosing an Instrument', designed to help children and their parents/carers make an informed choice about the instrument that is best for them. It includes information, pictures as well as brief video clips with instruments introduced by children and young people. The videos have been produced by Brighton and Hove Music and Arts and are used on the website with their kind permission.
Just click on the link below:
iSingPop 2024
iSingPop 2024
In June 2024, the school undertook its third iSingPop project. Having rehearsed for three days with our iSingPop leader, Carys, the children recorded an album and presented two incredible concerts in Kingsland Church. The children's album tracks can be found below:
Sunshine on a rainy day
All the love in the world
Reach out
Lifeline
Hey hey hey
The river deep
Sweet dreams
iSingPop 2024 Album Downloads
Oliver! 2023
iSingPop 2022
Arcadia Music Festival Rehearsal
