Music

Where learning is fuelled by creativity

Our Intent at TMS in music is that children:

  • are engaged, inspired and challenged, having skills and knowledge to develop a love of music and talent as musicians, impacting on self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement.
  • are able to perform, listen to, review and evaluate music from a range of periods, genres and styles including the world’s best composers and musicians
  • learn to sing and use their voices
  • have an opportunity to learn an instrument
  • explore creation of music through pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations.

Music is implemented by:

  • ensuring that there is 5-7 hours of science learning per unit
  • using music in performance (e.g. nativities), reflection time in class time and community events
  • Peripatetic teachers enhancing the provision of music at TMS

The impact of learning in music is assessed by:

  • children being able to talk about their learning and perform key aspects
  • assessment lessons as on the SING UP lesson sequences

What is music?

Music is a subject at TMS where children learn and develop practical skills, alongside a knowledge-rich curriculum of composers and contexts. The children engage with music through the six strands of singing, listening, playing instruments, composition and improvisation, music theory and performance.

Children learn through working with each other and also individually, and know the benefits and enjoyment that can be found in learning and sharing music with others.

We hope that the children leave us with confidence in ‘having a go’ in music – whether that is enjoying listening, understanding musical theory, composition skills or a joy in playing, singing and performing. 

At TMS we are all musicians.

As musicians, we ...

  • sing. Using our voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes. We sing and perform in solo and ensemble context.
  • play instruments (tuned and untuned)
  • listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions including recorded and live music
  • compose and improvise. We experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter related dimensions of music
  • understand and explore music history
  • Understand notation
  • Perform in school and the wider community
  • Create, express, share and listen, develop our ideas and grow

Being a musician, I can ...

  • be a performer
  • be a soloist
  • be a part of an orchestra or band
  • be a composer
  • be a singer
  • work in film industry
  • work in TV or radio
  • work in a record company
  • work as a studio technician or manager
  • be a sound engineer
  • be a music therapist
  • and much, much more!

Music curriculum overview - scope - progression EYFS - Year 6

SCOPE – curriculum overview – Progression EYFS – Y6

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD: MUSIC Curriculum SCOPE

 

 

TMS Music skills (components)

Progression of each component

SEND adaptations

SMSC through Music @ TMS

British Values through Music @ TMS

Peripatetic lessons

Musical Instrument Lessons at TMS

We have a fantastic team of instrument music teachers working at Threemilestone Primary.  If your child is interested in having lessons just let the office know and we will pass on your details on to the instrumental teacher who will then get in touch with you to let you know further details, including the cost.

Lessons currently available are:

·Keyboard / Piano lessons with Jill Steer
·Guitar and drum lessons with Will Thomas
·Guitar lessons with Doug McClure
·Violin Lessons with Katy Rowe

If your child would like to learn an instrument not listed (for example brass or woodwind) again, please ask at reception and we can arrange through the music hub for a teacher to get in touch.

All our visiting instrumental teachers work alongside the Music Hub to provide subsidised lessons for children that meet certain criteria. These are: Children eligible for free school meals and/or in care, Children with one or more parents serving in the British Armed Forces and Children, or parents, in receipt of Disability Living Allowance.