Music
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Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity that sparks pleasure, joy and self-expression;
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For many of our students, school will be the only place where they can freely access and enjoy music, so our intent is that they will develop a love and passion for listening to, composing, and performing music whilst here at Earlham. We also intend for them to be exposed to a variety of high quality music excerpts, compositions, songs, and performances.
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Our intent is that they will build their cultural capital through music which will allow them to be more informed global citizens.
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Music has impacts beyond the academic lives of students, and it is our intent that pupils will develop an understanding of the history of music and its impact on the world.
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Students will also develop an understanding of the impact music can have on wellbeing, and it is our intent that they will be able to identify music that supports how they feel, and boosts their positivity when they need it.
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Our music provision also allows students the opportunity to make and perform music for real life contexts, for example, our Christmas Production.
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Our music curriculum allows individuals and groups the opportunity to develop their listening appreciation, practical composition and performance skills, and build characteristics like resilience, teamwork and creativity.
In December, our students had the opportunity to perform the show; Lights! Camel! Action! The Sequin! from Out of the Ark music. We are very proud of the effort they put into rehearsing and performing! Please enjoy!
The Earlham Choir
"If I cannot fly, then let me sing" Stephen Sondheim
In choir we let our voices go free! We are exploring how to look after our voices, learning our vocal ranges, and enjoying singing songs from different genres and artists. As the year goes on we will be putting our learning into practice and performing at different events.
Our music learning
Here are some videos showing our music learning in Black and Asian History Month and our whole school Tune into Mental Health Week.
Through our music lessons in Black and Asian History Month we celebrated music from different black and Asian cultures. We explored music from different countries, and how it has influenced culture, beliefs, ideas, and even freedom movements.
Pupils listened, and appraised music, composed their own pieces and developed incredible performances that were shared at a special assembly - watch this video montage of our performances!
In Children's Mental Health Week we explored the ways in which music can capture, reflect and change our feelings and moods. As part of our music curriculum we listened to different styles of music and discussed the feelings that these pieces reflected, and then composed and performed our own mood music.
You can hear the children talk about how music helps their wellbeing, and what they learnt, in this video.