Music
Music at Buntingford First School aim is to produce the musicians of the future, those who will continue to enjoy performing and enjoying music into their adult lives. All students, regardless of ability, will achieve their musical potential, gain an understanding of a huge range of musical styles, gain the skills required to create and play on a range of instruments, and build on developing their key attributes that learning music supports.
We aim to provide an exciting musical curriculum. We believe that Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity. We aim to engage and inspire pupils to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians, and so increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement. The children are taught to develop a critical engagement with music.
KS1
In Reception pupils will learn how to use their voices to sing and learn a variety of songs. They'll also learn how to find the beat in music by clapping, dancing and learning actions to songs. They begin to work in small groups with percussion instruments to accompany texts and poems and begin to create their own pieces.
In Year 1, pupils will build on the skills they developed in Reception, working on singing, rhythm and using percussion instruments in small groups. They'll learn a broader range of challenging songs, create more complex small-group compositions and start to learn key words to describe the music they are listening to.
In Year 2, pupils will start off with singing, learning to sing canons and rounds in two, three or four parts before moving on to learn Christmas songs in the lead up to the holidays. After Christmas they will start to learn the recorder, and in the process the basics of music notation (rhythms and pitches), scales and application of how music notation becomes sound.
KS2
Students in Year 3 and Year 4 will have the opportunity to perform on a range of instruments which may include recorder, glockenspiel, African drums, and ukuleles. They'll learn about a range of musical styles, and learn a number of songs in parts, in groups, and in preparation for a range of performances.