Clubs4Children

Music4children encourages children of all abilities to enjoy music. Musical styles vary depending on school requirements and facilities, but the emphasis is on an educational, fun group session, not on individual musicianship.

Our activities follow the guidelines of The National Curriculum for Music.

As in the National Curriculum guidelines, emphasis is upon the interrelated skills of performing, composing, appraising and listening.

1) Performing.
Pupils learn how to:

sing songs, in unison and two parts, with clear diction, control of pitch, a sense of phrase and musical expression
play tuned and untuned instruments with control and rhythmic accuracy
practise, rehearse and present performances with an awareness of the audience.

2) Composing
Pupils learn how to:

improvise, developing rhythmic and melodic material when performing
explore, choose, combine and organise musical ideas within musical structures.

3) Appraising
Pupils learn how to:

analyse and compare sounds
explore and explain their own ideas and feelings about music using movement, dance, expressive language and musical vocabulary
improve their own and others’ work in relation to its intended effect.

4)Listening
Pupils learn

to listen with attention to detail and to internalise and recall sounds with increasing aural memory
to recognise how the combined musical elements of pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture and silence can be used to communicate different moods and effects
how time and place can influence the way music is created, performed and heard