“Music is life itself.”- Louis Armstrong, jazz trumpeter
"Where words fail, music speaks." - Hans Christian Anderson
Key Documents
For each music topic, children use a knowledge organiser to support them in learning the key musical knowledge. These are below.
Key Stage 1 Knowledge Organisers
Music-KO-African-Call-Response-Animals.pdf
Music-KO-Classical-Music-Animals.pdf
Music-KO-Dynamics-Timbre-And-Tempo.pdf
Music-KO-Musical-Me.pdf
Music-KO-On-This-Island.pdf
Music-KO-Pitch-And-Tempo.pdf
Music-KO-Pulse-And-Rhythm.pdf
Music-KO-Timbre-And-Rhythm-Fairytales.pdf
Music-KO-Orchestral-Instruments.pdf
Music-KO-Vocal-And-Body-Sounds.pdf
Lower Key Stage 2 Knowledge Organisers
Music-KO-Adapting-And-Transposing-Motifs.pdf
Music-KO-Ballads.pdf
Music-KO-Body-Percussion.pdf
Music-KO-Chinese-NY.pdf
Music-KO-Haiku-Music-And-Performance.pdf
Music-KO-India.pdf
Music-KO-Jazz.pdf
Music-KO-Changes-In-Pitch-Tempo-And-Dynamics.pdf
Music-KO-Rock-And-Roll.pdf
Music-KO-Samba-And-Carnival-Sounds-And-Instruments.pdf
Upper Key Stage 2 Knowledge Organisers
Music-KO-Advanced-Rhythms.pdf
Music-KO-Composition-Notation.pdf
Music-KO-Blues.pdf
Music-KO-Composition-To-Represent-The-Festival-of-Colour.pdf
Music-KO-Dynamics-Pitch-And-Tempo.pdf
Music-KO-Film-Music.pdf
Music-KO-Looping-And-Remixing.pdf
Music-KO-Musical-Theatre.pdf
Music-KO-Theme-And-Variations.pdf
Music-KO-Songs-of-World-War-2.pdf
There are many opportunities for the children to gain cultural capital in Music at Etwall Primary School, for example :
Recording a CD
Key Stage 1 Nativity
Early Years Foundation Stage Christmas production
Key Stage 2 Christmas Carol Service
Choir performance at the Christmas lights switch on
Whole school Harvest Festival
Links with John Port Windband
Young Voices
Peripatetic instrumental lessons
The impact of our curriculum can partly be seen in the wonderful photos of our work below.
If you wish to know anymore about the music curriculum, please email enquiries@etwall.derbyshire.sch.uk.