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Brinkworth Earl Danby’s CE Primary School

Brinkworth Earl Danby’s CE Primary School

Believe to Achieve! "Roots will grow down into God's love and keep us strong" EPH 3:17

Music

Subject Leader Mrs L Chambers-Haigh
Contact Details uppersite@brinkworthearldanbys.wilts.sch.uk for the attention of the Music Subject Leader
Mission Sentence At Brinkworth Earl Danby's School we believe that music plays a vital part in helping children to become thoughtful and reflective learners. Music is a subject that weaves through our daily routines, it is able to unite people and can be used to soothe and calm us in our busy lives.
Inspiring Quotes
  • Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, and life to everything… Without music, life would be an error. (Plato) 
  • Music belongs to everyone. (Zoltán Kodály)
  • Music can change the world because it can change people. (Bono)
  • The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart. (Gioachino Rossini)
  • …for music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and invoke something indestructible within them. (Irene Nemirovsky)

 

Curriculum Overview

 

Term One

Term Two

Term Three

Term Four

Term Five

Term Six

FS Beech

Sing a range of well known nursery rhymes and songs. Perform songs, rhymes, poems and stories with others, and (when appropriate) try to move in time with music.

Make music in a range of ways, begin to build a collection of rhymes and dances.

Express and communicate their feelings and understanding of different art forms, e.g. movement, dance, drama and music

Y1 Oak

My Musical heartbeat

Dance, Sing & Play

Glockenspiel Stage 1

Learning to Listen

Having fun with Improvisation

Let’s perform together

Y2 Elm

Pulse, Rhythm & Pitch

Blown Away Recorder Book 1

Inventing a Musical Story

Recognising different sounds

Exploring Improvisation

Our Big Concert

Y3/4 Birch

Writing Music down

Glockenspiel Stage 2

Compose Using your imagination

Uke suggested pathway

Expression & Improvisation

The Show must go on!

Y4/5 Rowan

Musical structures

Uke Flexible Pathway

Compose with your friends

Blown Away Recorder Book 2

Composing & chords

Freedom to Improvise

Y5/6 Willow

Melody & Harmony in Music

Sing & Play in different styles

Music & technology

Musical Styles connect us

Creative Composition

Hip Hop

Some famous musicians we are inspired by...

Ludwig van Beethoven  (1770 – 1827)

Stevie Wonder (b. 1950)

Ella Fitzgerald (1917 – 1996)

John Williams (b. 1932)

Gustav Holst (1874 – 1934)

Taylor Swift (b.1989)

  1. Music Development Plan 2024-2025
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