Intent
At Rattlesden Primary School, our aim is for children to develop a lifelong love of music and the ability to understand key concepts of listening, singing, composing and performing. Children experience and enjoy different music traditions from a range of cultures, genres and eras. They are encouraged to evaluate and appraise a variety of music and use this to create their own compositions. This gives children the opportunity and belief in their musical ability, in which they can build on in KS3.
Music links throughout our curriculum, for example The Roman Song is enjoyed in our history topic, and maths and literacy are always fun when taught through music!
We aim to give all of our children, especially the most vulnerable a wide range of musical experiences, where they can achieve well and build confidence that spills over into other subjects and areas of their lives.
Our music curriculum is supported by the Kapow music scheme to ensure high quality lesson, resources and curriculum coverage and progression.
At Rattlesden Primary School, our aim is for children to develop a lifelong love of music and the ability to understand key concepts of listening, singing, composing and performing. Children experience and enjoy different music traditions from a range of cultures, genres and eras. They are encouraged to evaluate and appraise a variety of music and use this to create their own compositions. This gives children the opportunity and belief in their musical ability, in which they can build on in KS3.
Music links throughout our curriculum, for example The Roman Song is enjoyed in our history topic, and maths and literacy are always fun when taught through music!
We aim to give all of our children, especially the most vulnerable a wide range of musical experiences, where they can achieve well and build confidence that spills over into other subjects and areas of their lives.
Our music curriculum is supported by the Kapow music scheme to ensure high quality lesson, resources and curriculum coverage and progression.
Implementation
All classes have music lessons each week. Year 5 have a specialist music teacher for guitar tuition from the Suffolk County Music Service weekly. They are able to ‘play on’ in Year 6, with subsidy for children in receipt of Pupil Premium funding. In Year 6 the children learn the recorder, reading music and performing, plus continuing to learn key concepts.
We attend school events arranged by the Suffolk County Music Service. We also perform regularly during the year, including at services held in the church for the local community.
At Christmas we sing to the elderly community outside the local shop, with hot chocolate and carols.
The school also provides piano lessons for the children during the school day, which is again subsidised for those receiving Pupil Premium.
We have a wide and high quality range of musical instruments available to all pupils, including instruments from other cultures and countries.
We have weekly singing practice, accompanied by the piano. The children also sing as they enter the hall as part of our Collective worship.
All classes have music lessons each week. Year 5 have a specialist music teacher for guitar tuition from the Suffolk County Music Service weekly. They are able to ‘play on’ in Year 6, with subsidy for children in receipt of Pupil Premium funding. In Year 6 the children learn the recorder, reading music and performing, plus continuing to learn key concepts.
We attend school events arranged by the Suffolk County Music Service. We also perform regularly during the year, including at services held in the church for the local community.
At Christmas we sing to the elderly community outside the local shop, with hot chocolate and carols.
The school also provides piano lessons for the children during the school day, which is again subsidised for those receiving Pupil Premium.
We have a wide and high quality range of musical instruments available to all pupils, including instruments from other cultures and countries.
We have weekly singing practice, accompanied by the piano. The children also sing as they enter the hall as part of our Collective worship.
Impact
Through their time at Rattlesden, children will have access to a variety of music teaching with a focus on the skills progression, they will have the opportunity to develop not only their music skills, but also developing self-confidence, team work, self-reflection and much more.
Children are able to enjoy Music as a listening, composer or performer, showing them how Music can be accessed in different ways. Music at Rattlesden, is seen as not a ‘specialised’ subject for some, but a subject that all can access and achieve in. The children will develop their musical vocabulary from KS1 throughout to ensure they understand and can demonstrate the inter-related dimensions of Music.
We measure the impact of our Music curriculum through pupil voice questionnaires/interviews, photo and video evidence (documented on the school drive), monitoring with subject lead and linked governor, annual reporting and tracking of standards and assessment tools. Each class has a music ‘floor book’ to show learning.
Our Music curriculum will hopefully foster a love and increasing enthusiasm for the subject amongst our children, and a potential for life- long musical study.
Through their time at Rattlesden, children will have access to a variety of music teaching with a focus on the skills progression, they will have the opportunity to develop not only their music skills, but also developing self-confidence, team work, self-reflection and much more.
Children are able to enjoy Music as a listening, composer or performer, showing them how Music can be accessed in different ways. Music at Rattlesden, is seen as not a ‘specialised’ subject for some, but a subject that all can access and achieve in. The children will develop their musical vocabulary from KS1 throughout to ensure they understand and can demonstrate the inter-related dimensions of Music.
We measure the impact of our Music curriculum through pupil voice questionnaires/interviews, photo and video evidence (documented on the school drive), monitoring with subject lead and linked governor, annual reporting and tracking of standards and assessment tools. Each class has a music ‘floor book’ to show learning.
Our Music curriculum will hopefully foster a love and increasing enthusiasm for the subject amongst our children, and a potential for life- long musical study.
Priorities for Music 2023-2024
- Ensure that there is regular, varied teaching and assessment of music.
- Ensure children are experienced and skilled players of a variety of instruments.
- Ensure that technical vocabulary for each year is embedded.
Music Development Plan Action Points
- Explore funding for whole class set of glockenspiels.
- Assessing for non-specialists / monitoring progress across years.
- Auditing current provision throughout the year groups.
Little Voices Together in Music
Oak class were proud to represent our school at a Trust wide music day "Little Voices, Together in Music". The concert at the end of the day was a real joy and it was fantastic to work alongside other schools in the MAT and students from Thurston Community College.
The children all had an amazing experience and really enjoyed themselves. They were all a credit to themselves and our school and it was a wonderful opportunity and experience which they will remember for many years to come.
The children all had an amazing experience and really enjoyed themselves. They were all a credit to themselves and our school and it was a wonderful opportunity and experience which they will remember for many years to come.
Musical Mondays
Cedar Class watched a live performance from Blank Face, who is a guitarist that plays a mixture of musical genres, from Hip Hop, RnB, Trap soul, Afro and Gospel. During the performance he taught us about how a capo is used on a guitar, about semitones and tones and also showed us how to freestyle! You can find his work on Spotify and more info about him here: Blank Face - Live Music Now
Suffolk Philharmonic Orchestra Visit
A string quartet from Suffolk Philharmonic Orchestra visited our school and performed a variety of music, including an extract from The Lark Ascending. Suffolk Wildlife Trust linked this with some information on the Skylark, including how to identify it, why their numbers are in decline and how we can help them. This helped the children link music with nature, recognising how nature can inspire some compositions. The children were totally captivated and thoroughly enjoyed the experience, which for many was the first time they had experienced live classical music, especially of such a high standard.
Some thoughts from our children...
- I really enjoyed it! It was really amazing how they played so beautifully. It was like magic! Some of my favourite songs were 'Under the Sea', 'Swan' and 'Skylark'
-The orchestra was inspiring, interesting, beautiful and peaceful.
- Remarkable, very amazing
- It made me feel relaxed. What a start of the day!
- Very good and a little magical
- I really enjoyed it! It was really amazing how they played so beautifully. It was like magic! Some of my favourite songs were 'Under the Sea', 'Swan' and 'Skylark'
-The orchestra was inspiring, interesting, beautiful and peaceful.
- Remarkable, very amazing
- It made me feel relaxed. What a start of the day!
- Very good and a little magical
Extra- Curriculuar Experiences
Every year young musicians from 22 primary schools from
across Suffolk had the chance to perform at The Apex in Bury St Edmunds.
The Suffolk County Music Service holds two large scale music performance events at the respected Bury St Edmunds venue, beginning each day with morning workshops, followed by a mass rehearsal in the afternoon and then a concert before an audience.
All the children have been learning to play an instrument this year as part of the Whole Class Ensemble Teaching programme delivered in schools by the Suffolk County Music Service’s tutors.
After the morning workshops, the children’s afternoon performances are individual school instrumental items and massed song and instrumental pieces in front of audiences of their parents, head teachers and school governors.
The schools taking part include Bacton, Chilton, Gt Barton, Guildhall Feoffment, Rattlesden, Risby, Sextons Manor, St Edmunds, Stonham Aspal and The Freeman Abbots Green, Bosmere, Combs Ford, Hardwick, Ickworth park, Combs Ford, Norton, Ringshall, Rougham, Stanton, Glade, Tollgate and Woolpit.
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Sometimes in a small school you have to work where you can! Here we are using our beautiful meadow when learning about Ostinato and trying out our own rhythms surrounded by nature!
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Progression of Skills
Vocabulary Progression
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