Music
Our Music curriculum, which is informed by the Model Music Curriculum (MMC) (2021), develops musical knowledge within a conceptual framework. Musical knowledge which is gained through experience is sometimes referred to as ‘tacit’ knowledge. In this curriculum, such experience is developed through singing, listening, composing (including improvising) and performing. These musical practices are woven throughout our curriculum, and are carefully sequenced so that pupils can build procedural knowledge and technical skills through practice. This allows them to begin to realise and develop their own expressive intentions through music. Beginning to understand the language of music might be described as becoming more ‘musical’. This is the aim of our curriculum. As such, each unit has a musical focus, such as pulse, rhythm, tempo, pitch, timbre, dynamics, form/structure, texture or harmony or a combination of these. .
