Livingstone Primary School
Music
At Livingstone, we offer a well-rounded and engaging Music curriculum that provides children with many practical opportunities to explore, create and perform music. Our teaching staff deliver high-quality, topic-based learning that follows the National Curriculum guidance for Music, ensuring progression of skills and knowledge across the school.
We view music as an exciting exploration, helping children to grow in confidence, express their creativity and develop a lasting enjoyment of music. Pupils learn to listen carefully, perform with others, compose simple pieces and develop an understanding of sound scapes, graphic score and graphic notation.
From Years 1 to 5, class teachers introduce children to the basics of reading musical notation through learning to play the recorder. This develops fundamental musical skills including rhythm, pitch, ensemble playing and overall musical literacy.
In Year 6, children take part in weekly brass instrument tuition, learning to play either the trumpet or trombone. Throughout the year, they develop their instrumental technique, confidence and performance skills. At the end of Year 6, pupils have the exciting opportunity to perform in a showcase brass concert alongside peers from the Mossley partnership.
In addition to this, we also have a range of peripatetic music teachers who come in to provide individual and small group music lessons on instruments such as the piano, the violin, the flute and the guitar.