Music
“Critical Thinking is thinking beyond what you hear,
what you
know in
your brain, in your heart, in your soul.”
At St Mary's, we want every child to be happy and enthusiastic learners of Music and to be eager to achieve their very best in order to fulfil their God-given talents. Music is all about communication and critical thinking. We firmly believe that the recipe for success is high quality teaching in Music, which is central to the life of our happy, caring school.
We use Charanga which forms the basis of our music curriculum. Charanga is a fantastically engaging platform that allows children to explore all elements of Music through:
- Understanding music in history and how it is created
- Music theory
- Improvisation
- Composing
- Listening and Appraising
- Playing
- Performing
As a part of our cultural capital, children will learn about key composers, periods of music and instruments from Music history such as Chopin, Debussy, Miles Davis, Byrd, Verdi, Paul McCartney and Adele.
They will also experience the following during Key Stage 1 and 2:
Learning to play musical instruments in class:
Rhyme Week!
Year 3
We are proud to be part of Young Voices for 2024-2025!
We will be taking our fantastic Young Voices choir to Manchester to sing as part of the largest choir in the world.
