At Hedgewood our aims for Music are : 

• To be able to deliver a high quality music education, engaging and inspiring.
• To help our pupils progress and develop a critical engagement with music and support our pupils to be able to engage with music, compose and listen.

Our music curriculum focusses on developing key skills, including:

Listening and Responding: The skill of actively listening to music and engaging with it in a thoughtful and responsive manner.

Creating: The skill of generating their own musical ideas, compositions and performances.

Controlling: The ability to manipulate and coordinate musical elements such as tempo, dynamics, pitch and rhythm.

Responding and Reviewing: The process of engaging critically and thoughtfully with music children hear or create through reflection.

Pupils are taught to:

• Use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes
• Play tuned and untuned instruments musically
• Listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high quality live and recorded music
• Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the interrelated dimensions of music.

These relate to the attainment points highlighted in the National Curriculum and/or Development Matters, which aims to ensure that all pupils: 

• perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions, including the works of the great composers and musicians.
• learn to sing and to use their voices, to create and compose music on their own and with others, have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument, use technology appropriately and have the opportunity to progress to the next level of musical excellence.
• understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated, including through the interrelated dimensions: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations