Music at Selwyn
Curriculum intent
At Selwyn, we share the national vision of enabling all children to learn to sing, play an instrument and create music together. We help children to identify music in their own lives and have the opportunity to progress their musical interests and talents, including professionally. Music forms an integral part of our broad and balanced curriculum here.
We intend to do this by following a rich music curriculum, ensuring that all pupils:
- learn to sing and to use their voices expressively irregardless of their starting point
- create and compose music independently and with others
- express opinions about music and develop their own musical taste by listening to music from all around the world and across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions, including the works of the great composers and musicians
- be curious to to ‘have a go’ and overcome any barriers to make them resilient learners
- have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument
- use technology appropriately
- learn how music is created, produced and communicated, including through the inter-related dimensions: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations
- children have the knowledge to equip them in the next stage of their musical journey
- children can develop their ambitions to progress to the next level of high quality musical excellence
