Music
Intent
As musicians, children at Beacon View are engaged and inspired to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians, and so increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement. As they progress through the school, children develop a critical engagement with music, allowing them to compose, and to listen with discrimination to the best in the musical canon.
By the end of KS2, all pupils leave Beacon View:
- Being able 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
- Having learnt to sing and to use their voices
- Being able to create and compose music on their own and with others
- Having had the opportunity to learn a musical instrument
- Able to understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated
Whole School Overview
As well as the curriculum below, each half term the whole school focuses on a "composer of the half term", based on each year group's Ten Pieces unit. This happens in weekly assemblies and with teachers playing music by the composer in their classroom.
Summer 2: Our composer this half term is Gustav Holst
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Year 1
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Year 2
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Year 3
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Year 4
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Year 5
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Year 6
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Autumn 1
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Duration
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Dynamics
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Rhythm and Graphic Scores
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Rhythm and Graphic Scores
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Rhythm
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Ten Pieces
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Autumn 2
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Ten Pieces
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Rhythm
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Recorders
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Hip Hop/Rap
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Notation
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Notation
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Spring 1
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Pitch
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Duration
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Recorders
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Ten Pieces
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Time Signatures
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Rhythm
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Spring 2
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Timbre
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Timbre and Texture
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Ten pieces
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Classroom Percussion
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Composition and Song Writing
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Scales
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Summer 1
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Dynamics
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Ten Pieces
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Glockenspiels/
Keyboards
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Ukulele
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Instrumental
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Composition and Song Writing
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Summer 2
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Instrumental
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Instrumental
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Glockenspiels/
Keyboards
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Ukulele
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Ten pieces
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Instrumental/
Performance
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