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title: "Music"
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school: "Kirkham Grammar School"
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# Music

***“Music can improve pupils’ learning, confidence, health and social development. It has the power to change lives and build stronger communities.” DfE***

Music is regarded as an essential element in the education of the whole child and plays a very important part within the life of KGJS. All pupils from EYFS have music timetabled either on a weekly basis or as part of our Arts Afternoon and every pupil is encouraged to either learn an instrument or sing in our choir. Recognising we are a ‘Platinum Sing Up’ school, our scheme is predominantly carved from the Sing Up resources. These resources fully support a fully integrated approach to musical development, connecting together the interrelated strands of singing, playing, performing, composing and improvising, listening, and appraising.  We offer a high- quality music education that engages and inspires our pupils to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians, and so increase their self -confidence, creativity and sense of achievement.

### What will I study?

#### By the end of the Early Years Foundation Stage, pupils will have been given the opportunity to:

- Express and communicate their ideas, thoughts and feelings by using a widening range of …movement… and a variety of songs and musical instruments.
- Recognise and explore how sounds can be changed, sing simple songs from memory, recognise repeated sounds and sound patterns, and match movements to music.
- Use their imagination in art and design, music, dance.

#### By the end of KS1, pupils will have been given the opportunity 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.

#### By the end of KS2, pupils have been given the opportunity 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.

## Kirkham Grammar School

## Kirkham Grammar Junior, Infant & Pre-School

  Ribby Rd
Kirkham
Preston
Lancashire
PR4 2BH   Tel: **01772 684264**
 Email: <info@kirkhamgrammar.co.uk>

  Ribby Road
Kirkham
Preston
Lancashire
PR4 2BD   Tel: **01772 673222**
 Email: <infokgjs@kirkhamgrammarjnr.co.uk>

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