We use Charanga to support our teaching of music.  There is 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.  

"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:

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.