From September 2024 we will be using Charanga to support our teaching of music. There will be a focus on recorder playing in Year 3 and 4 and a recorder club for those children moving to Year 5 who wish to carry on their recorder playing.
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Music LTP.pdf"Music is a unique form of communication that can change the way we feel, think and act.”
Charanga Musical School Units of Work enable children to understand musical concepts through a repetition-based approach to learning. Learning about the same musical concept through different musical activities enables a more secure, deeper learning and mastery of musical skills.
All activities are based around a song and follow the same approach:
Listen and appraise
Musical activities:
a. Games embed the Interrelated Dimensions of Music through repetition
b. Singing
c. Playing instruments with the song to be learnt – tuned/un-tuned classroom percussion and an option to play any band instrument. A sound-before-symbol approach is used but scores are provided as an understanding of notation is introduced to the children
d. Improvising with the song using voices and instruments occurs in some Units of Work
e. Composing with the song using instruments occurs in some Units of Work
3. Perform/Share
A high proportion of Wicor Primary School pupils pay for music lessons to enable them to learn to play specific instruments in small groups during the school day. We have a team of gifted and dedicated music teachers who teach drumming, keyboards guitar and violin. Choir club offers a chance for vocal harmony after school.
Orchestra WokYear 3 and 4 learnt about The Orchestra, not just the instruments that you would find within it, but also the history of the orchestra. They also learnt about some key composers looking at their time lines, history and some of their most well known music.
Music Concert 2023
Music Concert 2023.MOVYear 3 Recorder Concert 2023
Y3 Recorder Video
Hampshire Music Service worked with Year 5 in the Spring term 2023 to digitally remix the classic 'Never Gonna Give You Up' by Rick Astley using a web-based program called Bandlab. One of the class teachers said "I think that this was a great experience for all of the children, some showing a real talent (XXX was recognised by the mix artist for his talent and extra work that he has done at home) but also seeing XXX dancing to the music and being happy to stand up and be applauded by the class".
Wicor Warblers singing at the Eco Fayre, May 2023.
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