Music at Northstead Community Primary School
National Curriculum Purpose
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.
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.
Each half term as we enter and leave assembly, we listen to a different genre or style of music.
Assembly Music – Year A
Autumn 1 – Film Scores (Performance)
Autumn 2 – Wartime and Swing (Classic British)
Spring 1 – Baroque Period (European Music)
Spring 2 – The Beatles (British Icons)
Summer 1 – Caribbean/ Jazz Music (World Music)
Summer 2 – Disney/Inspirational songs (Other genres)
Assembly Music – Year B
Autumn 1 – Musicals (Performance)
Autumn 2 – Holst/Vaughan Williams (Classic British)
Spring 1 – Classical Period (European Music)
Spring 2 – British Pop/Rock Icons (British Icons)
Summer 1 – African / South American Music (World Music)
Summer 2 – Country and Blues (Other genres)
In years 4 and 5, children learn to play the Ukulele as part of the music curriculum
Every year, our children are invited to take part in our musical theatre production.
In 2024, this was Over the Rainbow. In 2025, this will be Adventures in Wonderland.