Music

Welcome to the Music Curriculum page.

Below, you can read about the National Curriculum for Key Stage 2, and read posts and view images from our class music lessons and events across the school. A small snapshot of an exciting, creative subject at Linton Heights:

Private Instrumental Lessons with Our Peripatetic Teachers

We are incredibly proud of the dedicated instrumental teachers who teach our pupils at Linton Heights. We have a Music Room where one-to-one and small group lessons take place and our pupils are encouraged and supported with their music, whether they are hoping to take formal music exams or just play for pleasure.

Mrs Emma Mason ~ piano / flute / recorder

Mrs Victoria Vellacott ~ piano

Mrs Hilary Crooks ~ violin / viola

Mrs Glenis Todd ~ recorder

Mr Christopher Charlesworth ~ clarinet / saxophone

Mr Gavin Bowyer ~ all brass (trumpet, horn, trombone)

Mr Gil Matthews ~ guitar

To register for music lessons at Linton Heights, please download the application form pdf (below), complete it and return to the school office. This will then be forwarded to the appropriate instrumental teacher who will contact you directly. A registration fee of £15 per family, per year is payable once lessons are able timetabled to start, and the arrangement of lessons is then made between you and the music teacher.

The attached information sheet has more details regarding what you can expect when entering into music lessons at Linton Heights. Costs of lessons for the current school year are stated on the application form.

If you have any more questions, please do arrange to speak to Mrs Mason or a member of the school office staff.

Music: Purpose of study

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.

Aims

The national curriculum for music aims to ensure that all pupils:

• perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions, including the works of the great composers and musicians

• learn to sing and to use their voices, to create and compose music on their own and with others,

• have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument, use technology appropriately and have the opportunity to progress to the next level of musical excellence

• understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated, including through the inter-related dimensions: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations.

The National Curriculum in England 2014

SUMMER TERM MUSIC CONCERT 25TH MAY 2017

On a very warm Thursday evening, 37 of our pupils performed at our annual Summer Music Concert. Parents, grandparents and teachers in the audience were treated to 90 minutes of inspirational solo, duet and ensemble performances from the children: from a Kabelevsky piano solo, to the Pink Panther theme on flute, right through to a guitar and vocal rendition of John Denver's Country Roads.

Our pupils' make us very proud, and the resilience, talent and encouragement on show in the school throughout the evening was a delight to see. Well done EVERYONE!

Exploring Orchestral Instruments April 2017

This half term, Year 4 are learning about Orchestral Instruments, and have explored instruments from the four different instrument families. We are going to perform as part of our own 'Percussion Orchestra' by playing John Williams' 'Hedwig's Theme' from Harry Potter.

OUTDOOR LEARNING: COMPOSING WITH NATURAL RESOURCES OCTOBER 2016

The freedom to compose a group rhythmic piece of music, in Year 5. Pupils selected their own 'instruments' from our outdoor learning environment

* snappy twigs

* crunchy leaves

* conkers

* gravel buckets .....

We had great fun! Listen to some of our work. What do you think?

SING FOR YOUR SCHOOL OCTOBER 2016

Today we have submitted our entry for Cambridgeshire's 'Sing for School' competition, 2016. The children are very excited to know the recording of our song will be going live and entering into the online live Chart. 

Click the link below to listen - we hope you like our song about our school V-A-L-U-Es

ARTS MERIT AWARDS at Linton Heights Junior School September 2016

The creative arts matter in education, and at Linton Heights we value the enrichment all arts subjects bring to our pupils' success.

From September 2016 we will be awarding new 'Arts Merit' certificates to recognise achievement and talent within creative arts: music, drama, art and dance. Pupils who are awarded this merit will receive their certificates in our Friday Ceilidh celebration assembly!

'New' for the Autumn Term 2016

Do you follow Linton Heights on Twitter or Facebook? You can now find weekly updates about #performanceTuesday, a new weekly chance for pupils to perform to the whole school, as part of our Tuesday Music Assembly. The Autumn term is being offered to pupils in the Upper school to put themselves forward. 

Any pupils keen to perform, please just speak to Mrs Mason when you see her in school.

Summer Music Concert, 28th April 2016

43 pupils performed to a school hall full of proud parents and staff tonight, in our annual Summer Term Music Concert. The choir and singing club both performed as part of the programme, which also included the String Group, Brass Group and individual instrumental performaces.

The full programme can be found here:

A Musical Start to the Day ~ Tuesday 26th April 2016

Mr Christopher Charlesworth visited our singing assembly to perform on his clarinet and saxophone today. The children heard both instruments performed live: including a classical clarinet concerto and a toe-tapping saxophone Tango! We all enjoyed the variety.

Mr Charlesworth will be joining our team of music peripatetic teachers from this term, so Linton Heights will now proudly offer private tuition on piano, violin/viola, flute, clarinet, saxophone, recorder, brass and guitar.

Djembe Drumming in Year 3 - Rhythmic Compositions December 2015

In Year 3 we have been learning about djembe drums. We watched a drummer performing, on the interactive whiteboard, and then improvised our own group compositions. It was very loud ~ but great fun! Have you seen our work on display in the hall?

Composing in Classes 3 and 4 ~ November 2015

Year 4 have been busy composing pentatonic tunes on their pitched percussion instruments: glockenspiels.

These compositions have been inspired by one of the Christmas Play songs, "Decorate the Tree of Life"....

.... and we learnt how to play that, too!

23rd October 2015 - Brass Day

Years 4 and 6 have enjoyed live music performed in their classrooms today, after a visit from our brass teacher, Mr Bowyer, who came into school with his colleague Ms Minchin. We would like to thank Linton Youth Music for providing the musical experience for the 4 classes to enjoy.