Ribbleton Avenue Methodist Junior School

As a Junior school we aim to build on the skills previously taught in our feeder school, Ribbleton Avenue Infant School.  We work closely with the Infant school to ensure that learning is progressive and enhances the musical experiences of all our children.

At Key stage 2 level:

Pupils should be taught to sing and play musically with increasing confidence and control. They should develop an understanding of musical composition, organising and manipulating ideas within musical structures and reproducing sounds from aural memory.

Pupils should be taught to:

• play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression
• improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music
• listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory
• use and understand staff and other musical notations
• appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians
• develop an understanding of the history of music