Music at Northfields Infant and Nursery School

• Is taught through a range of different schemes and programmes
• Provides children with opportunities to appreciate music from different era’s, styles and genres.
• Engages and inspires children to develop a love for music.
• Develops children’s listening skills and their ability to reflect on what they have experienced either positively or negatively.
• Develops children’s awareness that music can affect their mood and impact on their well-being.
• Allows children to express themselves creatively through open ended activities.
• Fosters children’s self-confidence and sense of achievement.
• Provide opportunities to develop an interest in musical activities both indoors and out (EYFS outdoor learning and Reception/KS1 Forest School sessions)

Our Children will:

• Listen and comment on a broad range of music.
• Sing and perform a vast array of topic related songs.
• Play tuned and un-tuned instruments.
• Listen to and comment on others musical performances.
• Create their own musical pieces.

Visits/Visitors

• When circumstances allow children will have the opportunity to watch professional musicians perform and also take part in community activities performing themselves in-front of an audience

Vocabulary

Over the Key Stages the pupils will be taught the following key vocabulary to use with developing knowledge:

• pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure, notation etc.

Music Skills

ELG

Ages and Stages - 30-50

• Sings a few familiar songs.
• Beginning to move rhythmically.  
• Imitates movement in response to music.  
• Taps out simple repeated rhythms.
• Explores and learns how sounds can be changed.

Ages and Stages 40-60

• Begins to build a repertoire of songs and dances.

• Explores the different sounds of instruments.

KS1

Pupils should be taught to:

• use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes.
•  play tuned and untuned instruments musically.
•  listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music.
•  experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music.