Meet the Music Team
Claire Armitage
Jill Thomason
Annemarie Roberts
Intent, Implementation and Impact
- How is your school’s curriculum being delivered? (Implementation)
- What difference is your school’s curriculum making? (Impact)
- What is your school trying to achieve through its Music curriculum? (Intent)
Intent
At St Oswald’s we embrace the power of music to inspire creativity and self-expression and to support wellbeing.
It is our intent that through our Music curriculum we make Music an enjoyable learning experience that develops children’s musical skills and fosters a lifelong love of music. Our Music curriculum is designed to furnish children with important and accurate music knowledge, to encourage children to explore their capacity for creativity; to think critically; be curious and have a growing understanding (empathy) of music’s impact on people.
We are committed to providing a musical experience which through the skills of listening and appraising; singing; composing; performing; and evaluating, children should secure their understanding of the musical elements of pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and, when appropriate, notation. They should be resilient in developing these skills, as they move through the school.
Through our Music teaching we aim to enable our pupils to grow in precision, passion and confidence when engaging in all aspects of musical knowledge and understanding and for each child to aspire to reach their full musical potential through singing, composing, playing instruments, performing and evaluating.
Implementation
At St Oswald’s we deliver a broad and balanced Music curriculum which provides children with opportunities 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.
- Learn to sing and use their voices.
- Create and compose music on their own and alongside their peers.
- Learn a musical instrument and progress to the next level of musical excellence.
- Understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated, including through the inter-related dimensions: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations.
We use the award winning, online music platform ‘Charanga’ to support the planning and delivery of our Music curriculum in KS1 and KS2.
Every child has a weekly music lesson when Music skills and knowledge are taught through a variety of teaching and learning styles and opportunities to listen and appraise; compose; perform and evaluate over a sequence of lessons.
At St Oswald’s we take advantage of every opportunity to enrich the musical curriculum for our children. We encourage our children to participate in a variety of musical activities and performances through which are opportunities to develop their talent as musicians and in turn, increase their self-confidence, inventiveness and sense of achievement.
Impact
There is an expected progression of skills mapped for each year group to identify the learning which will take place in each stage throughout the school by following the Music programme of study against which the children and Teachers will assess impact and attainment.
Impact is also monitored and evaluated through termly pupil voice and subject questionnaires.
St Oswald’s works closely with Accent Music Hub who deliver music provision in Warrington and Halton. More information about Accent Music Hub can be found on their website:
