Music Curriculum

The music curriculum is led and managed by a specialist and experienced music teacher alongside the help, support and great enthusiasm of all our staff.  Each year group and class have timetabled weekly lessons taught by our specialist music teacher with class teachers working alongside both supporting and developing their own good practice.

We provide children with exciting opportunities to participate in a number of performances in school as well as large scale concerts outside of school. Visits to concerts are booked and we try to ensure that all our pupils get as many opportunities as possible to attend live music concerts. Our pupils get the opportunities to attend opera performances at the Royal Opera House and orchestral concerts at the Barbican and the Royal Festival Hall. Pupils also perform in Enfield Music Partnership festivals.

Every child will experience one or more of the following during their time at Prince of Wales Primary:

• Ghanaian Kpanalogo drumming
• Steel pans
• Recorders (Descant and Treble)

In addition to this piano and keyboard lessons are available in school. Lesson on other instruments can be arranged if requested. Enrichment activities include recorders and choirs.

Regular and frequent concerts and performances are held at school by our pupils to which parents are invited.

Singing assemblies are held weekly – one for years 2-3 and one for years 4-6, where pupils are given the opportunity to sing together, taught singing techniques and to make the links between class music lessons and singing.

The content of the curriculum for Music

Year 1

Singing and using voices expressively, speaking chants and rhymes.
Playing untuned percussion instruments with some control
Listening to live and recorded music with growing concentration and answering questions about musical elements
Experimenting and creating sounds

Year 2

Singing and using voices expressively and creatively, speaking chants and rhymes.
Playing un-tuned and tuned percussion instruments with greater control
Listening with concentration to a greater range of live and recorded music and answering questions about musical elements
Creating, selecting and combining sounds.

Year 3

Play in ensemble contexts, using voices and instruments with increasing control.
Compose music
Listen to and recall sounds with increasing aural memory
Begin to use musical notations
Appreciate and understand a wide range of live and recorded music from different traditions

Year 4

Play and perform in ensemble contexts, using voices and playing instruments with increasing control and accuracy
Improvise and compose music
Listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory
Use and interpret musical notations
Appreciate and understand a wide range of live and recorded music from different traditions and composers.

Year 5

Play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using voices and playing instruments with increasing accuracy, control and expression.
Improvise and compose 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 live and recorded music from different traditions, composers and musicians.
Develop an understanding of the history of music.

Year 6

Play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using voices and playing instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression.
Improvise and compose 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 live and recorded music from different traditions, composers and musicians.
Develop an understanding of the history of music.