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16/07/24

Carnival! 🌍Following the dancing, singing and music we all enjoyed a range of exciting stalls, games and activities!#HPAHP pic.twitter.com/r1FbXJbLGa

16/07/24

Carnival Y5 and Y6Finally we ended up in Pakistan with Year 5 and Barbados with Year 6!🇵🇰 🇧🇧 🇵🇰🇧🇧🇵🇰🇧🇧🇵🇰🇧🇧🇵🇰🇧🇧🇵🇰🇧🇧#HPAHP pic.twitter.com/Jf3hDkyx7j

16/07/24

Carnival - Y3 and Y4 🌍Year 3 took us to South Africa and Year 4 took us to Colombia.🇿🇦 🇨🇴 🇿🇦🇨🇴🇿🇦🇨🇴🇿🇦🇨🇴🇿🇦🇨🇴Our Y4 students also showcased their Ukulele learning from year!🎶 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶#HPAHP pic.twitter.com/ju8kQV68cX

16/07/24

Carnival - Y1 and Y2 🌍Year 1 celebrated France and our Year 2 children took us to a whole new continent as they showcased New Zealand!🇫🇷 🇳🇿 🇫🇷🇳🇿🇫🇷🇳🇿🇫🇷🇳🇿🇫🇷🇳🇿🇫🇷#HPAHP pic.twitter.com/nMUg4J6Q7U

16/07/24

Carnival - Reception! 🌍Our Reception children started our world tour by taking us to Romania.🇷🇴 🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴Their costumes and dance represented everything they have been learning about the country in recent weeks!#HPAHP pic.twitter.com/LljcAG2a7h

16/07/24

Carnival! 🌍 This afternoon we went on a global tour as we celebrated our rich and diverse culture at HPAHP!The children sang, the children danced and the whole school community came together for an afternoon of fun!Thanks to everyone who took part!#HPAHP pic.twitter.com/T4asmdJWRq

01/07/24

Dulwich Picture Gallery 🖼️ Last week some of our Y1 pupils visited to take part in an art workshop. They experimented with a range of materials and techniques to create their own masterpieces!#HPAHP pic.twitter.com/STCOQezhCo

01/07/24

Carnival Costumes! 🎪 🎨 Linked to our Community Champions theme for July, our carnival is only a few weeks away!This afternoon, we were delighted to welcome parents and carers into school to create our costumes!#HPAHP pic.twitter.com/186aoeYHj1

21/06/24

HPAHP Nursery! 🏗️ Preparation for September is well under way. The building work is progressing at a rapid speed as we get our new Nursery provision ready!We have a very limited number of PM spaces available. Contact the school office for more info! pic.twitter.com/2ceUlgWoCO

17/06/24

Royal Opera House! 🎶 Our Year 5 pupils had an incredible experience at the on Friday.Mr Hollis, from , has created this video to celebrate the day! https://t.co/wYsoLdnlcD

14/06/24

Royal Opera HouseToday, our Year 5 pupils joined forces with schools from across the at the .They performed The Magic Flute in unison with other Year 5 children.Incredible experience!!#HPAHP pic.twitter.com/uQSrx411mx

14/06/24

ITE StudentsYesterday, we had the pleasure of welcoming secondary trainees from . They spent the day at HPAHP to experience what life was like in a primary school. It was a great day and the children loved talking about their learning!#HPAHP pic.twitter.com/jklBaWM6rN

14/06/24

Dapo!We love reading at HPAHP. We also love Dapo Adeola who we have named a class after. This week, our Year 2 children had the pleasure of meeting at Battersea Arts Centre!#HPAHP pic.twitter.com/TqKe348Vz4

14/06/24

Dulwich Picture Gallery 🖼️ This week, our Year 6 children visited Dulwich Picture Gallery. They took part in an art workshop around the theme of identity.#HPAHP pic.twitter.com/Zp7dJ5sPBI

10/06/24

Class Photos 📸 Class photos are scheduled for Wednesday 19th June 2024.#HPAHP pic.twitter.com/asVcWmEK19

10/06/24

Kingswood 2024 🚌 We are on our way back. We think some kind of the children (and staff) might be a little bit tired!!#HPAHP pic.twitter.com/Blyp2rQaoR

10/06/24

Sports Day 2024 🥇🥈🥉Our annual Sports Day event is scheduled to take place on Thursday 4th July 2024.As in previous years, it will take place at Whitgift School.AM - Y3, Y4, Y5 and Y6PM - Rec, Y1 and Y2More information to follow! pic.twitter.com/n4QsaA0zzq

10/06/24

Kingswood 2024Team tech - can they complete the challenge and get all the moving parts working?#HPAHP pic.twitter.com/hQF3awVgnc

10/06/24

Kingswood 2024The sky might be slightly more grey today but that hasn’t dampened the energy of the children. The leap of faith first up today!#HPAHP pic.twitter.com/VQWUBjUBLb

09/06/24

Kingswood 2024 🪩 The final evening of the trip saw us celebrate in style. A disco with some of our local Harris friends from Croydon.#HPAHp pic.twitter.com/5O8QTeTWWN

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Music

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.

Music teaching at Harris Primary Haling Park ensures 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. They have the opportunity to 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. Children should 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.

Intent: Introduction, Vision and Philosophy

The purpose of this document is to clarify the how, why and what of music teaching at Harris Primary Academy Hailing Park. This is to be used by staff to clarify expectations, highlight the resources that we have access to, and to ensure that a high-quality music curriculum is being taught to all pupils in our academy. At HPAHP, we ensure that every child has a meaningful interaction with musical activities and that our music teaching not only engages pupils and creates an atmosphere in which all children feel able to participate, but also inspires pupils to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians.

Children will have opportunity to appraise, imitate, compose, improvise and perform music throughout their time at our school. Whilst with us, we aim to increase their self-confidence, creativity and a sense of individual and collective achievement with respect to music. In addition to this, we strive to expose our pupils to music from a variety of music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions, including the works of the great composers and musicians. Our children will develop an appreciation for a variety of genres and musical styles thus developing positive attitudes and deeper understanding of other cultures and societies.

As pupils progress, we see them develop their ability to reflect on the important effect that music has on people’s emotions, allowing them to compose, interpret and critically engage with music. We teach them to listen and appreciate different forms of music and provide them with the vocabulary to effectively participate in discussion based on their own opinion of different pieces of music. We encourage children to use their analytical skills in music lessons when learning about how music can represent feeling. Children have the opportunity to learn to sing and to sing in tune and hone their skills playing an instrument both on their own and as part of a group. They will understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated, including through the inter-related dimensions.

Implementation: What does Music look like at HPAHP? 

Music teaching is composed of two strands at HPAHP: singing and music. The singing strand includes 6 lessons per half term of 3 songs (with a learning question for each). The music strand is a half termly focus of 6 lessons, with the final always being a performance. These lessons are also complemented with whole class ensemble lessons: recorders for Year 3 and 4.

All teaching is planned around three key areas: technical, constructive and expressive.

Technical:

Competence in controlling sound (instrumental, vocal or with musical technology). Use of communication system, such as notations.

Constructive:

Knowledge of the musical elements/interrelated dimensions of music Knowledge of the components of composition.

Expressive:

Musical quality/creativity. Knowledge of musical meaning across the world and time.

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

Year 6

Hey You! (Hip Hop)

Hands, Feet, Heart  (South African)

Ukuleles (BYMT)

Mamma Mia (Pop)

African Drumming (BYMT)

Happy
(Pop)

Rhythm in the way we walk (Reggae)

Ho Ho Ho (Christmas + Motown)

Ukuleles (BYMT)

Glockenspiels

African Drumming (BYMT)

Classroom Jazz

In the Groove (Blues/Funk/Latin/ Compare)

I wanna play in a band (Rock)

Ukuleles (BYMT)

Stop! (Comparison – Grime, Bhangra, Classic)

African Drumming (BYMT)

A New Year Carol

Round and Round (Latin Bossa Nova  B. Band)

Zootime (Reggae)

Ukuleles (BYMT)

Lean on Me (Gospel)

African Drumming (BYMT)

You've Got a Friend

Your imagination (Improvisation)

Friendship Song (Improvisation and comp)

Ukuleles (BYMT)

Blackbird (Improvisation)

African Drumming (BYMT)

Music + Gender

Reflect, Rewind and Replay (Performance)

Reflect, Rewind and Replay (Performance)

Ukuleles (BYMT)

Reflect, Rewind and Replay (Performance)

African Drumming (BYMT)

Reflect, Rewind and Replay (Performance)