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