Music

WELCOME TO THE MUSIC CURRICULUM PAGE

Linton Heights employs a music specialist teacher, Mrs Emma Mason, one day a week to teach whole class music lessons across Key Stage 2. Each year group is timetabled for music during one half of each term. Our Year 3 pupils learn to play the ocarina in the summer term and into the autumn term of Year 4, as part of our Equal Access provision

Extra-curricular music opportunities are also very popular. These include Recorder Club (a free, lunchtime club for all year groups), after school Choir, 'pop-up' Orchestra and Fiddle Group. Parents/Carers can also arrange private instrumental lessons. Scroll down this page to find more information, and use the following link to our FORMS page to find the Application Form and 'Information for parents' leaflet. A flexible 'Learn Piano at Home' programme is also available - please contact Mrs Mason via the school office for more information.

Music Curriculum: Purpose of Study

Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity, and as a Silver ArtsMark school we place great importance upon the role our music lessons play, for each of our pupils. 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, to listen and perform to their highest potential.

Aims

Our music curriculum allows all pupils to:

• 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

• progressively develop music specific skills across Key Stage 2, with the opportunity to progress to the next level of musical excellence

• 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 (ocarina, glockenspiel, recorder club and classroom percussion as well as provision for extra curricular private instrumental lessons)

• use, and be inspired by, available music technology

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

The National Curriculum in England 2014

Linton Heights Music Curriculum

Music at Linton Heights 2019-2020

Young Voices 2020

It was a privilege to take LHJS choir to the London O2 on 6th February 2020, to perform as part of the Young Voices 2020 choir. Our school was superbly represented by 26 children, along with Mrs Mason, Mr Puxley, Mr Wilson, Miss Davies, Mrs Benjamin and Mrs Rosewell. We drove to Greenwich for this fantastic enrichment trip, made all the more exciting because we were allocated (by random chance) seats within the executive suite area - we felt like Very Important People!

"It was been the BEST DAY EVER!" and "I will keep telling my other friends they have to join choir, too!" have been echoed by our pupils. An inspiring and memorable experience, which incorporates so many of our school values: resilience, respect, kindness, responsibility and ambition, that will be with all of us for the rest of our lives - children and adults alike!

Year 5 (Autumn Term 2019) 'Earth' Compositions

Here are some Year 5 rhythmic compositions, which were created using natural resources in our Forest School - inspired by the idea of 'The Planets' by Gustav Holst.

Instrumental Music Lessons - More Information

We are incredibly proud of the dedicated instrumental teachers who teach our pupils at Linton Heights on a private basis. 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. Parents can arrange lessons for their children to take place during the school day, or contact Emma Mason for more information about the 'Learn Piano at Home' programme.

Further information, alongside an application form to download, can be found via the 'Forms' link at the top of this page. Our peripatetic (visiting) music teachers are:

Mrs Emma Mason ~ piano / flute / recorder

Mrs Victoria Vellacott ~ piano

Mr Sam Herbert ~ piano

Mrs Hilary Crooks ~ violin / viola

Mrs Glenis Todd ~ recorder / singing

Ms Hannah Horton ~ clarinet / saxophone

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

Mr Gil Matthews ~ guitar

CREATIVE ARTS WEEK is in June each year

Here are some photos from Creative Arts Weeks over the last few years.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE LIVE MUSIC

We welcome live musicians to our school, including ensembles from the the Cambridgeshire Music Live project each Spring Term. Here are some photos of some of our visitors, showing the different musicians we have enjoyed.