Music
Our music curriculum intent
The intention of our Music Curriculum at Gisburn Road Community Primary School is first and foremost to help children to feel that they are musical, and to develop a life-long love of music. We focus on developing the skills, knowledge and understanding that children need in order to become confident performers, composers, and listeners. Our curriculum introduces children to music from all around the world and across generations, teaching children to respect and appreciate the music of all traditions and communities.
Children will develop the musical skills of singing, playing tuned and untuned instruments, improvising and composing music, and listening and responding to music. They will develop an understanding of the history and cultural context of the music that they listen to and learn how music can be written down. Through music, our curriculum helps children develop transferable skills such as team-working, leadership, creative thinking, problem-solving, decision-making, and presentation and performance skills. These skills are vital to children’s development as learners and have a wider application in their general lives outside and beyond school.
School Music Development Plan
Examples of creative cross curricular music opportunities
‘The School Song’ written by Gisburn Road Primary School 2018 Leavers. The children worked Mr Gilmour (local teacher and musician) to write this song.
Music in History: For remembrance week, Year 4 used one of our assembly songs to write a song about the war.
Golden time opportunities (frequently changed), including sing around the piano with Mr Browne or drumming and African songs with Mrs Baptie.
Singing with Mathematics with David Godfrey as part of ‘Number Fun’.
Outreach workshops from Blackburn Cathedral, as part of our commitment to the Sing Together project (KS2).
Singing assembly
Mr Gilmore (local teacher and musician) leads an innovative and exciting singing assembly each week; providing the children with musical history, background and an opportunity to join in with singing as a whole school experience. This weekly session is greatly looked forward to by children in all year groups.
Instrument lessons and Choir
Once children reach KS2, they are given opportunities to learn a musical instrument. We currently offer a range of woodwind instruments (Miss Pecker) and guitar (Mr Gilmour). We also offer KS2 children the opportunity to join our school choir, led by Mrs Fullalove and Mrs Baptie. This provides children the opportunity to take part in a range of singing events which vary each year. These provide fantastic opportunities for children to sing with other schools, develop confidence and create memories which they will never forget.
