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Musicians

Our Intent

Our intent is to instill and develop a love and appreciation of music in our pupils and develop their musical skills. We engage and inspire children to appreciate, compose and perform music whilst exploring different music genres.

Pupils learn to:

  • 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

Are children born musical?

There is a common misconception that some children are born musical, and some aren’t: that being musical is purely down to talent. This isn’t at all true. As with all skills, with practice, everyone can develop and progress, and giving children regular opportunities to participate in a progressive series of musical activities can really help to embed knowledge, skills, and understanding, enabling them to develop strong musical foundations, which may have a profound impact across many areas of their learning. 
(Sing Up on Developing Musicianship)

How can you help at home?

Singing is absolutely key in improving your child’s musicality.  Sing along to the radio in the car, sing in the bath, sing your child a lullaby at bedtime!  For ideas see ‘Bring the Noise’ and ‘Friday Afternoon Music’ below.  Make some time to listen to and enjoy music.  You could ask children what instruments they can hear when listening to music.  Play them the music you love and don’t forget to dance and sing along (makes washing up go much quicker!).

“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.”

National Curriculum Music (2014)

Our Approach

In at least one enquiry each year, music is an integrated key focus.  Music is taught additionally using the Sing Up music resource throughout the year.  Sing Up is a high-quality resource that supports teachers to inspire pupils and develop their musicality. All classes will have the opportunity to combine their speaking skills and singing skills as they perform their Production. We also have weekly singing assemblies where we have the opportunity to sing together as a whole school. Sing Up will also be used in singing assemblies.

We offer extra curricular instrument lessons and have a vibrant, enthusiastic choir who perform regularly at school events.  More Information on these can be found in the ‘Children’ section of the website (Extra Curricular Clubs/Instrumental Lessons).

Curriculum Map: Music Whole School Map 2023-24

Take a look at our Sea Mills Primary Musicians…

Year 3 have been learning all about Just Three Notes. We have been looking at pitch and rhythm. They have begun to compose their own music using just three notes, C, D and E! 

Our choir and musicians regularly perform to the school and the wider school community.