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Music
Music washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday life.
Berthold Auerbach
Intent
Music is a universal language that everyone can participate in and enjoy and during their time at Christ Church the children are all encouraged to explore music through a variety of avenues.
Implementation
Music is taught in accordance with the National Curriculum and a specialist teacher ensures that all children have the opportunity to develop musical talents and abilities. During weekly lessons they learn to sing and to play tuned and untuned instruments with increasing accuracy, control and expression, to improvise and compose music, to use and understand notation and to perform, both solo and as part of an ensemble. They listen to both recorded and live music from a wide range of genres and find out about the history of music.
We use a music resource called Charanga and this is highly proficient in ensuring teachers are upskilled and have the resources at hand that they need to teach music well.
Children have the opportunity for whole class instrument tuition and the school has its own class sets of ukuleles, recorder and glockenspiels. This allows children to develop transferable music skills and musicianship. There are two school choirs.
We are part of B.E.A.T. ( Barnet Education Arts Trust) and this provides opportunities for our children to learn to play a variety of instruments with peripatetic staff. The children have the opportunity to learn a variety of instruments including drums, violin, cello, trumpet, clarinet and piano.
Impact
We value the importance of performance and encourage our children to share their skills regularly in assemblies as well as visits to the local community. Our musicians regularly perform at local residential homes and participate in termly evening recitals. The choir take part in Barnet School and LDBS events and have performed at The Royal Albert Hall with Year Six children embracing the wonderful opportunity to participate in Young Voices. This not only provides the children with enjoyable experiences that nurture confidence, social awareness and self esteem but also allows them the opportunity to practice our values of compassion, respect, trust and perseverance.
Music is everybody’s possession.
John Lennon