Music

At Cravenwood, we acknowledge the diversities of not just our school family, but also the United Kingdom. The music curriculum incorporates these diversities through exploration of different styles and genres with the aim of expanding the cultural capital of our pupils as musicians and composers.  

By the end of Year 6, the children at Cravenwood will have been taught to: 

• Understand what pulse is 
• ​Tap the pulse of different pieces  
• Understand what rhythm is 
• Read, write and play (simple to more complicated) rhythms, growing in confidence  
• Understand meter and identify the meter in a variety of pieces of music 
• Read and write pitch notation 
• Play simple melodies from pitch notation 
• Understand phrases and how to identify them 
• Know what an ostinato is and how to play one 
• Create and organise sounds to make a composition 
• Create sounds to represent a mood 
• Recognise the structure and shape of a given piece of music 
• Understand the elements of music and what part they play 
• Recognise scales and chords 
• Use voices and instruments confidently and correctly 

• Pupils from all year groups will have weekly music lessons in which they learn to sing, listen, perform, compose and discuss different genres of music.
• These lessons will follow the Charanga Music Curriculum which is designed to ensure that all children experience a large range of musical styles.
• Children will encounter musical vocabulary that enables them to further their understanding of musicianship.
• We offer children opportunities throughout their time at Cravenwood to participate in concerts and performances to celebrate their musical talents.
• Starting in EYFS, children progress through the school, with exposure to, and opportunities to build upon, a variety of methods for reading and writing music until the end of Key Stage 2, where children will be able to both compose and play musical notation.
• During their final year at Cravenwood, children are offered professional tuition in learning how to play the steel pans. 

• The 2011 National Plan for music, identified that 'music can make a powerful contribution to the education and development of children, having benefits which range from those that are largely academic to the growth of social skills and contribution to overall development.' 
• Through music at Cravenwood, the children will develop their sense of cultural capital by being exposed to and gaining an appreciation for a variety of musical cultures and styles. They will have a well-rounded experience of both listening to and playing music from a range of genres and will therefore be confident in composing, performing and analysing music.
• By building upon prior knowledge throughout their musical education, children leaving the school in Year 6 will have a large bank of musical vocabulary that they use to discuss different pieces of music.
• The skills that the children at Cravenwood learn through music will enable them to develop their sense of achievement, self-confidence and, self-reflection.