Music

At Brook House Primary School, all children receive regular weekly curriculum music lessons. The teaching of music is further enhanced through a specialist music teacher, as well as additional external support through the Haringey Music Service.

The teaching of music is delivered through activities that integrate musical learning into the school day to deliver a broad and balanced curriculum offer for our pupils. Musical learning includes performance, composition and aural based activities, targeting key musical elements throughout the academic year, and giving children the freedom to express themselves creatively, whilst developing knowledge and skills using instruments and voices.

Through the teaching of music we provide our pupils with the opportunity to play and learn a range of musical instruments. Supported through our music teacher and other external service providers, we also offer continuation lessons for those children wanting to continue to learn to play an instrument.

Instruments that children will learn to play whilst at Brook House:

• Ukulele
• Clarinet
• Trumpet
• Violin
• Keyboard
• Recorders
• Glockenspiel
• Djembe

The teaching of singing and musicianship is based on the Kodaly method with a range of songs, many taken from Voices Foundation curriculum, and movement games.  Over time, we begin to incorporate musical notation, building the connection between a sound and the written form.

We regularly listen to music from a variety of genres and discuss the key dimensions of music: rhythm, dynamics, tempo, pitch, texture, timbre, structure as well as instrumentation, articulation and overall mood and meaning. We may respond to the music with composition, art or movement.

Each unit comprises of the strands of musical learning which correspond with the national curriculum for music.

1. Listening and Appraising

2. Musical Activities
    a. Warm-up Games
    b. Optional Flexible Games
    c. Singing
    d. Playing instruments
    e. Improvisation
    f. Composition

3. Performing