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Music

Music

 

At Stonehill School, we recognise the importance of Music across the curriculum and the role it has to play in promoting cultural diversity. The intent of the music curriculum at Stonehill is to provide all children with a range of opportunities to learn and experiment with sounds, rhythm and notation. It is our vision for every pupil to succeed and achieve their potential as well as to learn something new. It is our role to inspire pupils through offering fun and engaging music lessons that are enjoyable, challenging and accessible to all. We want our pupils to appreciate and know the benefits of listening to and playing music. Through our teaching of music, we will provide opportunities for pupils to develop values and mindfulness skills through calm and reflective opportunities across the curriculum. Through skills learned, children will have opportunities to perform in large and small groups.

 

Aims:

1. To develop musically competent learners

2. To develop engaged learners

3. To develop reflective learners

4. To give children a range of opportunities to experiment with instruments.

 

We intend to do this by:

  • Ensuring all children have opportunities to experiment and practice a wide range of instruments both individually and with their peers.
  • Providing a stimulating, challenging and engaging learning environment with a range of activities.
  • Allowing children to review their learning by watching back videos and performances.

Summer term music topics

 

EYFS

Big Bear Funk

  • Listening and appraising Funk music
  • Embedding foundations of the interrelated dimensions of music using voices and instruments
  • Learning to sing Big Bear Funk and revisiting other nursery rhymes and action songs
  • Playing instruments within the song
  • Improvisation using voices and instruments
  • Riff-based composition
  • Share and perform the learning that has taken place

Year 1

Your Imagination

 

This is a song about using your imagination. Children will listen to a range of songs and suggest ways in which the musicians and artists have produced an image of imagination. Children will have opportunities to compose their own imaginative songs.

Year 2

Friendship Song

by Joanna Mangona and Pete Readman

This is a song about being friends. Children will be able to produce their own friendship songs using the glockenspeils. 

Year 3

Bringing us together

This is a six-week Unit of Work. All the learning in this unit is focused around one
song: Bringing Us Together - a Disco song about friendship, peace, hope and unity.
 

Year 4

Blackbird

All the learning in this unit is focused around one song: Blackbird by The Beatles - a song about civil rights

Year 5

Dancing in The Street

All the learning in this unit is focused around one song: Dancing In The Street by Martha And The Vandellas.The material presents an integrated approach to music where games, the dimensions of music (pulse, rhythm, pitch etc), singing and playing instruments are all linked.

Year 6

Music and Me

Music and Me is the first in a series of units focusing on inspirational women working in music, and part of Brighter Sound’s pioneering gender equality initiative both Sides Now.

Throughout this series, your students will explore the concept of ‘identity’ – the various elements that shape us. In this unit, we start with gender, with reference to social and cultural differences.

They will be invited to try out different ways of making their own music, while exploring the work of some of the most influential women in music over the last 100 years.

 

Spring Term 2 Music Topics

 

 

 

EYFS

Our World

 

Learn to sing nursery rhymes and action songs:

  • Old Macdonald
  • Incy Wincy Spider
  • Baa Baa Black Sheep
  • Row, Row, Row Your Boat
  • The Wheels On The Bus
  • The Hokey Cokey

 

Year 1

Round and Round

This is a six-week Unit of Work that builds on previous learning.  All the learning is focused around one song: Round And Round, a Bossa Nova Latin style.

 

Year 2

Zootime

his is a six-week Unit of Work. All the learning is focused around one song: Zootime. The material presents an integrated approach to music where games, the interrelated dimensions of music (pulse, rhythm, pitch etc), singing and playing instruments are all linked.

 

Year 3

The Dragon Song

The Dragon Song by Joanna Mangona and Pete Readman

This is a song about kindness, respect, friendship, acceptance and happiness.

 

Year 4

Lean on Me

A Soul/Gospel Song by Bill Withers

This is a six-week Unit of Work. All the learning is focused around one song: Lean On Me

 

Year 5

Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

Old-School Hip Hop by Will Smith

This is a six-week Unit of Work. All the learning is focused around one song: The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air.

 

Year 6 

You've got a friend

All the learning in this unit is focused around one song: You've Got A Friend by Carole King

Looking at pulse and rhythm. 

 

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