Indian Queens Primary School & Nursery

Music

At Indian Queens School we see music as a unique way of communicating that can inspire and motivate children. It is a vehicle for personal expression and it plays an important part in personal development. The teaching and learning of music enables children to better understand society and how communities interact. Besides being a creative and enjoyable activity, music also plays an important part in helping children to feel part of a community. We provide opportunities for all children to create, play, perform and enjoy music, to develop the skills, to appreciate a wide variety of musical forms, and to begin to make judgements about the quality of music.

Performance opportunities

Richard Healey- guest composer for our Lost Words Art Exhibition.

Performance opportunities

Creative opportunities through our Hall for Cornwall partnership

To listen to and explore how music is created

Viewing theatre and stage productions through our Hall for Cornwall partnership

To use and understand staff and other musical notation

Creative teaching approaches

To explore how sounds are created

To listen with attention to detail and increasing aural memory.

To improvise and compose music for a range of purposes

To explore a wide range of instruments

Viewing theatre productions

Creative opportunities

To play and perform in solo and ensembles

To explore a wide range of musical instruments

Whole class music tuition

To experiment, create and select sounds using the inter related dimensions of music

Creative approaches to teaching music

Theatre productions

Whole class music tuition

Play tuned and untuned instruments

At Indian Queens Primary school we use Charanga to support our music teaching, this is an online music scheme provided by Cornwall Music Services/ hub with lots of visual aids and interactive resources to support children's learning about music. Our children have good resources to enable them to learn music such as a class set of recorders, glockenspiels, variety of handheld percussion, a full set of African drums, ocarinas, handbells and examples of instruments from around the world.

KS2 children also have the opportunity to learn either the keyboard, guitar as part of individual tuition lessons and selected KS2 classes have the opportunity to take part in whole class tuition on African drums and Ukulele funded through the Cornwall music education hub. This is a fantastic opportunity and often leads to children taking up individual music lessons for that instrument.

All children also take part in a Key Stage singing assembly once a week where they learn songs related to the season or important festivals. Key Stage Two children also have the opportunity to take part in a choir each term. At Christmas Key Stage 2 invite local community elders to join us for a Christmas sing-a-long to share the songs we have been learning and Key Stage 1 perform nativity plays with lots of singing and dancing for parents and carers.

To support our music teaching and provide engaging opportunities for our pupils, we often invite guests into our school. We are also a partner school of the Hall for Cornwall and the RSC who support creative opportunities and training for staff.