Music

At Garlinge Primary School and Nursery we understand that music is a highly creative universal language. We believe that music education should engage and inspire children to develop a love for music, developing their talents, creativity and sense of achievement through a curriculum which is:

Topic-based, linking to school topics or science units where possible
Cross-curricular
Musically diverse
Fully resourced
Accessible to non-music readers

The main aims for musical education at Garlinge are:

To perform, listen to, review and evaluate music from range of different genres, styles, cultures, traditions and historical periods.
To listen to the works of great composers and musicians.
To learn to sing, and to develop and use their voices to create and compose music on their own and with others.
To use body percussion and whole-body actions to create and compose music on their own and with others.
To have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument.
To understand how music is created, produced and communicated through the inter-related dimensions: pitch, tempo, timbre, duration, dynamics, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations.

In addition, children are offered the opportunity to participate in extra-curricular musical opportunities, including several after school music clubs, as well as working with highly experienced music teachers from the local area.