Music

Music Curriculum Overview

Rationale

Music at St Aidan's is meaningful, engaging, inspiring and personal. We believe that engaging with music increases self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement. Music plays a huge role within everyday society. It can have many different functions; it can be entertaining, tell a story, exciting, or be a form of relaxation or escapism. It can affect our moods and can bring back memories. It can reduce stress, lessen anxiety, improve moods and improve our memory. At St Aidan's Academy we aim to give all pupils a strong understanding of a range of musical styles, whilst allowing them to acquire specific skills and knowledge in order to help them to read, write and play music. Music is a form of expression and we actively encourage all of our pupils to explore this.

Intent

At St Aidan's Academy pupils will gain a firm understanding of what music is through listening, singing, playing, evaluating and composing across a wide variety of historical periods, styles, traditions, and musical genres. We are committed to ensuring pupils understand the value and importance of music in their own and others’ lives. wellbeing and also the impact music has in the wider community. 

Implementation

Students will listen to a range of musical styles, genres and cultures and learn to describe music, with the ability to form critical opinions about the music they hear. They will learn to compose and perform in a variety of musical styles and understand the basics of music theory and how to read music notation. Within every topic pupils will evaluate and review their own work and that of others. They will explore a range of practical activities in order to develop instrumental and vocal skills. We actively encourage all pupils to participate in a wide range of enrichment activities to further enhance their skill set and build confidence in performing.

Impact

The music curriculum will enable pupils to achieve well, allowing them to build up comprehensive Music vocabulary, enhancing their confidence with a variety of skills and techniques and generally prepare them for the rigours of further study. We aspire to ensure that all pupils have the confidence, motivation and appropriate skills and knowledge to pursue music related qualifications and careers in the future.