Welcome to our Linden Music page! On this page you will find information about what your child will be learning in this subject, photographs of work that has taken place and links to helpful websites.  We hope that you find this page useful. 

What is Music? What is a Musician?

'Music is an art form, and cultural activity, whose medium is sound. General definitions of music include common elements such as pitch, rhythm, dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. Different styles or types of music may emphasize, de-emphasize or omit some of these elements. Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit and never dies.’
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

‘Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.’
Leonard Bernstein

‘Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.’
Ray Charles

At Linden we support the purpose of Music education as set out in the 2014 National Curriculum Document.

Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity. A high-quality music education should engage and inspire pupils to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians, and so increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement. As pupils progress, they should develop a critical engagement with music, allowing them to compose, and to listen with discrimination to the best in the musical canon.

Music Curriculum

Music is all around us. It is the soundtrack to our lives. Music connects us through people and places in our ever-changing world. It is creative, collaborative, celebratory and challenging. In our schools, music can bring communities together through the shared endeavour of whole-school singing, ensemble playing, experimenting with the creative process and, through the love of listening to friends and fellow pupils, performing. The sheer joy of music making can feed the soul of a school community, enriching each student while strengthening the shared bonds of support and trust which make a great school. We cover the full national curriculum for Music and use national curriculum statements to ensure we cover a broad and balanced curriculum, but essentially, the programme of study for both KS1 and 2 is constructed as follows: Music is a
universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity. A high- quality music education should engage and inspire pupils to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians, and so increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement. As pupils progress, they should develop a critical engagement with music, allowing them to compose, and to listen with discrimination to the best in the musical canon.

Our Linden Primary School Music Vision

Music is an art form which builds upon children’s cultural capital. At Linden this will be nurtured and celebrated. We want to give children opportunities that may be beyond their everyday experiences and provide them with all the necessary tools that will enable them to fully contribute and fulfil our aspiration that every child adopts a lifelong love of music.

We cover the full national curriculum for Music and use national curriculum statements to ensure we cover a broad and balanced curriculum, but essentially, the programme of study for both KS1 and 2 are constructed as follows:

Key stage 1 Pupils will be taught to:

• use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes.
• play tuned and untuned instruments musically
• listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music
• experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music.

Key stage 2 Pupils will 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.
• 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.

At Linden, we teach children to be Musicians by:

• providing them with opportunities to progress their music knowledge and skills through the use of the Leicestershire Music Hub. This scheme has been specially selected for age appropriateness and further develop children’s cultural capital.
• We support children to develop musical instrument skills through whole class ensemble teaching