Trotts Hill Primary School and Nursery
"Music is a piece of art that goes in the ears straight to the heart".
"Yes, because I have more freedom to show who I am and my personality" Giselle
"Yes, because it makes me happy" Isla
"Yes, because I like learning new beats and tunes" Leon
"Yes, because I like listening to it and singing it" Reggie
"Learning the violin and singing" Ilaria
"i like learning to play drums" Freddie"
"Learning to sing and preforming" Jase
"I like playing instruments and preforming" Brian
The National Curriculum for music aims to ensure that all children are taught:
How to Sing, through careful listening, and well-developed sense of pitch and sing in harmony.
Listen to music as it is fundamental to musical understanding and to have a deeper understanding of how music is constructed.
Compose, to create musical sounds, vocal chants, body percussion and creating rhythm and pitch.
Musicianship, to understand the musical terminology for Pulse/beat, Rhythm and Pitch
At Trotts Hill, children gain a firm understanding of what music is through listening, singing, playing, evaluating, and composing across historical periods, and musical genres. We are committed to ensuring children understand the value and importance of music in the wider community and are able to use their musical skills, knowledge, and experiences to involve themselves in music, in a variety of different contexts.
The music curriculum ensures children sing, listen, play, perform and evaluate. As a school we are now using Singup as our music scheme across the school. This scheme ensures that all children are taught a variety of skills and knowledge in line with the national curriculum. This is embedded in the classroom activities as well as the weekly singing assemblies, choir sessions for KS2 children, performances, and the learning of instruments. The elements of music are taught in the classroom lessons so that children are able to use some of the language of music to dissect it, and understand how it is played, and appreciated. In key stage 2 children learn how to play an instrument, from strings, percussion and tuned percussion (glockenspiel). Children are taught to create notes as well as how to read basic music notation. Composing or performing using body percussion and vocal sounds is also part of the curriculum, which develops the understanding of musical elements without the added complexity of an instrument. The history periods and musical genres are taught throughout Key stage 2 by listening to, appreciating, and composing whilst studying BBC Ten Pieces and assembly music. During the school year, children have the opportunity of listening to a variety of different genres. As a school we ensure that there is diversity in music including and representing, different cultural backgrounds, genders and ethnic groups.
Whilst in school, children have access to a varied programme, which allows them to discover areas of strength, as well as areas they might like to improve upon. The integral nature of music and the learner creates an enormously rich palette from which a child may access fundamental abilities such as: achievement, self-confidence, interaction with and awareness of others, and self-reflection. Music will also develop an understanding of culture and history, from across the world. Children are able to enjoy music in as many ways as they choose - either as listener, creator or performer. They can dissect music and comprehend its parts. They can sing and feel a pulse. The Music Mark has recognised that Trotts Hill provide a variety of opportunities and resources, giving the children the confidence and opportunities to perform and develop their musical journey.
The choir were invited to sing at the Stevenage Schools Festival. They sang and performed beautifully for their parents and carers in the evening.
The children in nursery were encouraged to listen to Vivaldi and talk about how this piece of music made them feel. They were then asked to express this feeling whilst drawing or painting.
This particular children spend more than 15 mins, expressing his feelings whilst listening to the piece of music.
Year 2 preforming Hi, Lo, Chikka Low as part of their assessment.
Year 3 using the percussion instruments to sing whilst keeping a steady beat.
Our wonderful choir entertained us and preformed 4 beautiful songs.
Year 1 entertained us with a wonderful song and dance.
Reception entertained us with a wonderful dance.
As part of our learning nursery rhymes, we all had the opportunity of holding and playing. a violin. We learnt how to hold it and hold the bow and then we had a turn at plucking the strings. We sang the nursery rhyme Hey Diddle Diddle whilst playing a tune!
Year 1, singing and using body percussion to perform a song.
Year 4 preforming Amazing Egyptians
A wonderful production of A Warm and Fuzzy Christmas by the nursery. They sang, acted and looked wonderful retelling the story of the nativity.
A fabulous performance of Frosty the Snowman, and a poem about a melting Snowman. Year 1 sang beautifully and spoke loud and with clarity.
What an amazing Christmas Production! We are really proud of the children. They sang their hearts out, learnt all the actions as well and danced stylishly. The little play 'Naughty List' was enjoyed by the audience. Thank you for everyone's support.
Under the guidance of Mr Sapsed and his amazing choreography, Year 5 gave an energic, entertaining and captivating dance performance to 'Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree' and delightfully sang 'Sing-Up It's Christmas.
The choir performed for the elderly folk at Wisden Court. They sang beautifully, entertaining them with a variety of traditional and modern Christmas songs and carols. The residence joined in with the carols they knew and were very grateful to have the choir sing to them.