At Hillside Infant School, music is taught as a practical, engaging and creative subject. Children experience music through listening, performing, creating and responding, helping them to develop confidence, independence and a sense of belonging.

How We Teach Music

Our music curriculum is built around four key strands, which develop children’s musical skills and understanding:

• Play and Perform
  Children learn to control sound through singing and playing tuned and untuned instruments.

• Create and Compose
  Children explore and develop their own musical ideas by experimenting with sounds and patterns.

• Evaluation and Appraisal
  Children listen to a range of music and learn how to talk about what they hear, sharing thoughts, feelings and opinions.

• Listening and Applying Knowledge and Understanding
  Children identify sounds and patterns, discuss the purpose of music and apply what they have learned to create their own pieces, choosing instruments to achieve different effects.

Through these strands, children are taught to perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of genres and styles. They learn to use their voices expressively, work independently and collaboratively, and understand how music is created, produced and communicated through pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture and structure.