Music

Eden Park’s music curriculum aims to engage and inspire pupils to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians, ensuring that all pupils perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions. As pupils progress, they develop a critical engagement with music, allowing them to compose, and to listen with discrimination to the best in the musical canon.  

Our curriculum for music includes teaching children how to use their voices, to create and compose music on their own and with others. Children will 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.

Key stage 1 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  

Key stage 2 Pupils should be taught to:

• play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression  

• improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music

• listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory  

• use and understand staff and other musical notations  

• appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians  

• develop an understanding of the history of music.

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