Music
Music is well and truly alive at Old Moat! Throughout their school journey, all children have the opportunity to develop creativity, self-expression and a life-long love of music through quality teaching and access to a range of instruments. We hope to foster this life-long love of music by developing children’s ability to; sing in tune and with other people, play tuned and untuned musical instruments with increasing control, fluency and expression and listen critically to a wide range of music from different periods, genres, styles and traditions.
At Old Moat, we aim to ensure that all pupils:
Perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions, including the works of the great composers and musicians
Learn to sing and to use their voices, to create and compose music on their own and with others, have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument, use technology appropriately and have the opportunity to progress to the next level of musical excellence.
Understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated, including through the inter-related dimensions: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations
Through our partnership with Primary Robins, children have singing lessons with professional singers and have the opportunity to perform. Through our partnership with One Education, children learn how to play steel pans. There are also opportunities to play all sorts of instruments within their classrooms, including glockenspiels! Music appreciation is taught through Charanga, and we have a carefully chosen programme of music played in assemblies so that children gain the cultural capital they need as citizens of the world.