At Rose Street Primary School we make music an enjoyable learning experience. We encourage children to participate in a variety of musical experiences through which we aim to build up the confidence of all children. Our teaching focuses on developing the children’s ability to sing in tune and with other people. Through singing songs, children learn about the structure and organisation of music. We teach them to listen and to appreciate different forms of music. As children get older, we expect them to maintain their concentration for longer and to listen to more extended pieces of music. Children develop descriptive skills in music lessons when learning about how music can represent feelings and emotions. Through using Charanga we teach them the disciplined skills of recognising pulse and pitch. Also, we teach the children how to work with others to compose music and perform for an audience. 

KEY STAGE 1 

• ​Use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes. 
• Play tuned and un-tuned instruments musically. 
• Listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music. 
• Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music. 

KEY STAGE 2

• Pupils should be taught to sing and play musically with increasing confidence and control. They should develop an understanding of musical composition, organising and manipulating ideas within musical structures and reproducing sounds from aural memory. 
• Pupils should be taught to:
• Play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression. 
• Improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of 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 high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians.
• Develop an understanding of the history of music.