Music at Longstone
Here at Longstone music is really important to us. There are many events that present opportunities for our children to develop their musical experience and knowledge. We have many pupils who participate in instrumental lessons with our daily visiting peripatetic teachers, and all key stage 2 pupils participate in our performances and concerts. Different individuals are also encouraged to perform each week in our celebration assembly.
We cover a different unit of work each half term - so six units throughout the year. Each unit incorporates the skills of performing, composing, musicianship (including music theory), and listening and appraising. Because each unit is linked to the whole school topic, we are able to give a broad musical experience, ensuring the children are developing an appreciation for music from different genres and cultures.
Through both curricular and extra curricular music we aim to:
We cover a different unit of work each half term - so six units throughout the year. Each unit incorporates the skills of performing, composing, musicianship (including music theory), and listening and appraising. Because each unit is linked to the whole school topic, we are able to give a broad musical experience, ensuring the children are developing an appreciation for music from different genres and cultures.
Through both curricular and extra curricular music we aim to:
- Foster a life-long love of music and musical expression.
- Equip our children with skills that develop their confidence and self-expression.
- Develop the children's understanding and tolerance of others through a wide range of music experience.
- Equip the children with enough music theory in order to facilitate their practical application.
- Develop the children's skills of performing, composing and appreciating music.
Curricular Music
The following link goes some way to explain how music may benefit your child:
http://youtu.be/R0JKCYZ8hng
In our classwork, the children gain experience of music through: performing, composing, transcribing, and listening and appraising. They also hear and use musical vocabulary every week – so it soon becomes part of their everyday language. This academic year our music projects are linked to our whole school topic work. We have been/will be studying:
Unit 1: Linked to the topic on the vikings, the children are composing a piece of music that tells a story. The children's programme music will demonstrate development as they tell a story, linked to their English work, by combining various musical elements. The children's own compositions will be performed at the Autumn concert.
Unit 2: Linked to our topic Funny Bones, the children will experiment with different instrumentation, evaluating how an instrument's material contributes to the musical timbre. They will listen to Danse Macabre and note how Camille Saint-Saens achieves the sound of dancing skeletons. The juniors will also concentrate on performance as they rehearse for the musical - Ali Baba and the Bongo Bandits. We will finish off the term by playing simple Christmas/winter themed music on musical instruments - improving score reading and performance.
Unit 3: Linked to the topic of China, the children will explore the characteristics of Chinese music. In small groups, the children will compose a piece of music which incorporates the pentatonic scale. The children will perform and evaluated their music.
Unit 4: As part of the heroes villains topic, this term the children will explore film music - focusing on what makes a good hero/villain sound track. The children will evaluate how a combination of the elements of music affects a person's mood, and how film makers use music to manipulate the mood of the viewers.
Unit 5: Our topic this term is Seeds of Change. In music the children will look at Vivaldi's classic piece, The Four Seasons. The children will then compare and evaluate a modern arrangement of one of the movements. The children develop simple scores of classical music and arrange them for modern instruments.
Unit 6: The music in this unit will be performed at our annual Gala Concert.
http://youtu.be/R0JKCYZ8hng
In our classwork, the children gain experience of music through: performing, composing, transcribing, and listening and appraising. They also hear and use musical vocabulary every week – so it soon becomes part of their everyday language. This academic year our music projects are linked to our whole school topic work. We have been/will be studying:
Unit 1: Linked to the topic on the vikings, the children are composing a piece of music that tells a story. The children's programme music will demonstrate development as they tell a story, linked to their English work, by combining various musical elements. The children's own compositions will be performed at the Autumn concert.
Unit 2: Linked to our topic Funny Bones, the children will experiment with different instrumentation, evaluating how an instrument's material contributes to the musical timbre. They will listen to Danse Macabre and note how Camille Saint-Saens achieves the sound of dancing skeletons. The juniors will also concentrate on performance as they rehearse for the musical - Ali Baba and the Bongo Bandits. We will finish off the term by playing simple Christmas/winter themed music on musical instruments - improving score reading and performance.
Unit 3: Linked to the topic of China, the children will explore the characteristics of Chinese music. In small groups, the children will compose a piece of music which incorporates the pentatonic scale. The children will perform and evaluated their music.
Unit 4: As part of the heroes villains topic, this term the children will explore film music - focusing on what makes a good hero/villain sound track. The children will evaluate how a combination of the elements of music affects a person's mood, and how film makers use music to manipulate the mood of the viewers.
Unit 5: Our topic this term is Seeds of Change. In music the children will look at Vivaldi's classic piece, The Four Seasons. The children will then compare and evaluate a modern arrangement of one of the movements. The children develop simple scores of classical music and arrange them for modern instruments.
Unit 6: The music in this unit will be performed at our annual Gala Concert.
Instrumental lessons
We have a designated practice room that our peripatetic teachers use for lessons on a daily basis. Instrumental lessons currently taught to our children are:
If your child is interested in having instrumental lessons with one of our teachers, please contact the school office.
- Piano
- Voice
- Drums
- Guitar
- Bass Guitar
- Violin
- Cello
- Woodwind - flute and clarinet
- Brass - trumpet, cornet and trombone
If your child is interested in having instrumental lessons with one of our teachers, please contact the school office.