Music

Here at Britannia, we follow the National Curriculum for Music through our current scheme of Charanga, giving every child the chance to develop their creativity, confidence, and love of music. We believe that music is at the heart of our creative learning and that every child truly is a musician! Through singing, playing instruments, listening, and composing, children have the chance to explore sounds, express themselves, and discover the joy that music brings.

Through a broad and balanced music curriculum, children learn to:

• Listen carefully and respond to a wide range of musical styles and traditions.

• Sing and perform with increasing accuracy, control, and expression.

• Play tuned and untuned instruments, both on their own and as part of a group.

• Compose and improvise their own music using different sounds and techniques.

• Understand how music is created through the interrelated dimensions of pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, and structure.

Our lessons are lively, practical, and inclusive, giving children lots of opportunities to perform, create, and appreciate music from different times and cultures. We celebrate music from all around the world and encourage every child to share their own musical interests and talents.Through weekly assemblies, performances both in and out of school and extra curricular music activities available to child weekly, we really aim to bring music, performance and creativity to life here at Britannia!

We have excellent links with the Lancashire music service who deliver, both 1:1 and whole class tuition from years 3 - 5. With children practising the Ukelele in year 3, the Keyboard in year 4 and the violin in year 5, working towards in all lesson a final performance, which year on year continues to show fantastic skill and a real love of learning through music. Furthermore, we have this year partnered with RockSteady who provide weekly tuition in instuments such as drums, bass, keyboard. 

Singing is a real passion here at Britannia. Each week, our children come together for joyful singing assemblies, celebrating music as a whole school. Throughout the year, we share our voices at special events such as Harvest, Christingle and our Christmas Carol Service, where every class performs their own song with pride.

We also have thriving choirs in both KS1 and KS2, which meet weekly to rehearse and perform a wide range of songs. Our choirs represent Britannia with enthusiasm at local and regional events, including Young Voices at the Manchester Arena and community Christmas celebrations at the Maden Centre.

Singing certainly brings our school community together, fills our halls with music, and gives every child the confidence to shine through performance!

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