Arts (Art, Drama, DT & Music)

East Hanningfield CE Primary School

How do we teach art and design?

Intent:

At East Hanningfield CE Primary School art should be fully inclusive to every child. Our aims are to: fulfil the requirements of the National Curriculum for art and design, provide a broad and balanced curriculum, ensure the progressive development of knowledge and skills, enable children to observe and record from first-hand experience and from imagination, develop the children’s competence in controlling materials and tools, acquire knowledge and become proficient in various art and design techniques and processes, begin to develop an awareness of the visual and tactile elements including; colour, pattern and texture, line and tone, shape, form and space, foster enjoyment and appreciation of the visual arts and develop a knowledge of significant artists, craftspeople and designers, increase critical awareness of the roles and purposes of art and design in different times and cultures, and analyse works using the language of art and design and develop a cross-curricular approach to the use of art and design in all subjects.

 

Art and design teaching at East Hanningfield CE Primary School instils an appreciation and enjoyment of the visual arts.  Art and design stimulates imagination and creativity; involving children in a range of visual, tactile and sensory experiences, which enable them to communicate what they see, think and feel through the use of the elements of colour, texture, form and pattern.  Art and design promotes careful observation and an appreciation of the world around us. Children explore ideas and meanings through studying the work of artists and designers. Through learning about the roles and functions of art, they can explore the impact it has had on contemporary life and on different periods and cultures. 

The aims of teaching art and design in our school are:

• To engage, inspire and challenge pupils, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art, craft and design.
• As pupils progress through school, they should begin to think critically and develop a more rigorous understanding of art and design. They should also know how art and design both reflect and shape our history, and contribute to the culture, creativity and wealth of our nation.
• To produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences.
• To become proficient in drawing, painting, sculpture and other art, craft and design techniques
• To evaluate and analyse creative works using the language of art, craft and design.
• To know about great artists, craft makers and designers, and understand the historical and cultural development of their art forms.

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Implementation:

To ensure high standards of teaching and learning in art and design, we implement a curriculum that is progressive throughout the whole school. Art and design is taught as part of a termly topic, focusing on knowledge and skills stated in the National Curriculum. At East Hanningfield, we ensure that art and design is given the same importance as the core subjects, as we feel this is important in enabling all children to gain ‘real-life’ experiences.

The art and design curriculum at East Hanningfield CE Primary School is based upon the 2014 Primary National Curriculum in England, which provides a broad framework and outlines the knowledge and skills and taught in each Key Stage. Teachers plan lessons for their class using our progression of knowledge and skills document. Teachers can use this document to plan their art and design lessons suitable to their class’s interests and what they want to learn. The progression document ensures the curriculum is covered and the skills/knowledge taught is progressive from year group to year group.

When teaching art and design, teachers follow the children’s interests to ensure their learning is engaging, broad and balanced. A variety of teaching approaches are used based on the teacher’s judgement.

 

Impact:

Within Art, we strive to create a supportive and collaborative ethos for learning by providing a range of learning opportunities using a variety of mediums. Emphasis is placed on investigative learning opportunities to help children gain a coherent knowledge of understanding of each unit of work covered throughout the school.

Our art curriculum is high quality, well thought out and is planned to demonstrate progression. We focus on progression of knowledge and skills and discreet vocabulary progression also form part of the units of work.

We measure the impact of our curriculum through the following methods:

• Assessing children’s understanding of topic linked vocabulary before and after the unit is taught.
• Summative assessment of pupil discussions about their learning.
• Images and videos of the children’s practical learning.
• Interviewing the pupils about their learning (pupil voice).
• Moderation staff meetings where pupil’s books are scrutinised and there is the opportunity for a dialogue between teachers to understand their class’s work.
• Annual reporting of standards across the curriculum.
• Evaluation of sketch books.

East Hanningfield CE Primary School

How do we teach design and technology?

 

Intent:

At East Hanningfield Primary School design and technology is fully inclusive to every child. Our aims are to:

• provide a broad and balanced curriculum
• ensure the progressive development of knowledge and skills
• learn how to take risks
• become resourceful, innovative, enterprising and capable citizens through evaluation of past and present design 
• develop a critical understanding of its impact on daily life and the wider world,
• to participate successfully in an increasingly technological world using the language of design and technology.

 

The aims of teaching design and technology in our school are:

• Develop creative, technical and imaginative thinking in children and to develop confidence to participate successfully in an increasingly technological world.
• Enable children to talk about how things work and to develop their technical knowledge,
• Apply a growing body of knowledge, understanding and skills in order to design and make prototypes and products for a wide range of users,
• Encourage children to select appropriate tools and techniques when making a product, whilst following safe procedures,
• Develop an understanding of technological processes and products, their manufacture and their contribution to our society,
• Foster enjoyment, satisfaction and purpose in designing and making things,
• Critique, evaluate and test their ideas and products, and the work of others,
• Understand and apply the principles of nutrition and to learn how to cook,
• Understand how key events and individuals in design and technology have helped shape the world.

 

Implementation:

To ensure high standards of teaching and learning in design and technology, we implement a curriculum that is fun, exciting and progressive throughout the whole school. Design and technology is taught as part of a termly topic, focusing on knowledge and skills of the National Curriculum. At East Hanningfield, we ensure that design and technology is given the same importance as the core subjects, as we feel this is important in enabling all children to gain ‘real-life’ experiences.

 

Teachers plan lessons for their class using our progression of knowledge and skills Cornerstones document to support. Teachers can use this document to plan their design and technology lessons suitable to their class’s interests and what they want to learn about. The progression document ensures the curriculum is covered and the skills/knowledge taught is progressive from year group to year group.

 

When teaching design and technology, teachers follow the children’s interests to ensure their learning is engaging, broad and balanced. A variety of teaching approaches are used based on the teacher’s judgement. Children showing extensive aptitude in design and technology will be celebrated.These students may also have their work displayed in school and may win competitions that we take part in (Rotary Club etc.)

 

At East Hanningfield Primary School, we provide a variety of opportunities for design and technology learning to take place inside and outside the classroom. These activities should be guided by the children’s interests in particular topics. Our enrichment days also offers an opportunity for parents to engage with the school and participate with their children’s learning.

 

Educational visits are another opportunity for the teachers to plan for additional design and technology learning outside the classroom.  The children have visited local museums, food establishments and had visitors into school to share learning and have hands on experiences.  At East Hanningfield Primary School, teachers make use of the extensive grounds and outdoor learning area when planning for their students.

 

Impact:

Within design and technology, we strive to prepare children to take part in the development of tomorrow’s rapidly changing world. We aim to encourage children to become creative problem-solvers, both as individuals and as part of a team. Through the study of design and technology, children combine practical skills with an understanding of aesthetic, social and environmental issues, as well as of functions and industrial practices. This allows them to reflect on and evaluate present and past design and technology, its uses and its impact. Our design and technology curriculum is high quality, well thought out and is planned to demonstrate progression. We focus on progression of knowledge and skills and discreet vocabulary progression also form part of the units of work.

We measure the impact of our curriculum through the following methods:

• Assessing children’s understanding of topic linked vocabulary before and after the unit is taught.
• Summative assessment of pupil discussions about their learning.
• Images and videos of the children’s practical learning.
• Interviewing the pupils about their learning (pupil voice).
• Moderation staff meetings where pupil’s books are scrutinised and there is the opportunity for a dialogue between teachers to understand their class’s work.
• Annual reporting of standards across the curriculum.
• Marking of work in books.

 

East Hanningfield  Primary School

How do we teach Music?

Music Intent:

At East Hanningfield Primary School, we aim to engage, motivate 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.

Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity. 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. (The National Curriculum)

Music teaching at East Hanningfield Primary School aims to follow the requirements of the National Curriculum for Music; providing a broad, balanced and differentiated curriculum; ensuring the progressive development of musical concepts, knowledge and skills.  Music is a unique way of communicating, it is a vehicle for personal expression, and it can play an important part in personal and cognitive development. Music at East Hanningfield aims to reflect the culture and society that we live in, and so the teaching and learning of music enables children to better understand the world they live in. At East Hanningfield we recognise that music can be a highly academic and demanding subject but we also aim to make it a creative and enjoyable activity. Furthermore, music also plays an important part in helping children to feel part of a community and so we provide opportunities for all children to create, play, perform and enjoy music both in class and to an audience through assemblies, concerts and key stage performances. Lessons enable children to develop their skills, appreciate a wide variety of musical forms, and begin to make judgements about the quality of music. 

The national curriculum provides an outline of core knowledge around which East Hanningfield School develops exciting and stimulating themes and lessons to promote the development of pupils’ knowledge, understanding and skills as part of the wider school Curriculum.

Our Music curriculum is based on our mission statement Try Hard, Work Hard, Achieve More.

 

The aims of our Music curriculum are to develop pupils who:

• Can sing and use their voices.
• Create and compose music on their own and with others.
• Use technology appropriately.
• Progress to the next level of musical excellence. 
• Have opportunities to learn a musical instrument.
• Understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated.
• Understand the work of great composers and musicians.
• Enjoy and have an appreciation for music.
• Use musical language.
• Make judgements about the quality of music.
• Have opportunities to play a wide variety of instruments.
• Take part in performances.
• Perform and share a range of musical styles.
• Listen, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions.
• Have opportunities to study a range of musical styles and genres, e.g. Jazz, Hip Hop, Pop, Rock etc.

 

Special Educational Needs Disability (SEND) / Pupil Premium / Higher Attainers

All children will have Quality First Teaching.  Any children with identified SEND or in receipt of pupil premium funding may have work additional to and different from their peers in order to access the curriculum dependent upon their needs. As well as this, our school offers a demanding and varied curriculum, providing children with a range of opportunities in order for them to reach their full potential and consistently achieve highly from their starting points.

 

Implementation:

At East Hanningfield Primary School we recognise that musical teaching and learning is not neat or linear and that children do not learn in straight lines. Repeating a musical skill doesn’t mean their progress is slowing down or their development is moving backwards, it enables pupils to reinforce musical understanding in order to improve the quality of their musicianship.

Our Music Progression Model 2019-20 allows children to develop new music skills and concepts whilst also revisiting and embedding established musical skills and concepts. At East Hanningfield  we recognise that achieving mastery in Music means gaining both a deeper understanding of musical skills and concepts whilst also learning something new. The progression document ensures the curriculum is covered and the skills, knowledge and vocabulary taught are progressive from year group to year group.

Music is a foundation subject in the National Curriculum and the Music curriculum at East Hanningfield  is in line with the 2014 Primary National Curriculum in England requirements for KS1, KS2 and the Foundation stage curriculum. Music teaching at East Hanningfield will deliver the requirements of the National Curriculum through half termly topics and teachers plan lessons based on our knowledge and skills document and the Charanga scheme of work, ensuring consistency and progression throughout the school.

 

We recognise that music is a specialist subject and not all teachers are musical specialists. In 2018 we purchased the Charanga Musical School package to supplement our music curriculum. Music at East Hanningfield is mainly taught by a specialist music teacher.

 

At East Hanningfield the music teacher uses the Charanga scheme of work as a supplement to their music lessons rather than following it as a prescribed model. The teacher tailors the units and uses the ‘freestyle’ element of the package to provide thematic, cross curricular lessons that also follow children’s interests. Music lessons are broken down into half-termly units and flexibility is provided to enable teachers to link with other subjects and follow pupil’s current interests. An emphasis is placed on musical vocabulary, allowing children to talk about pieces of music using the correct terminology.

 

Each unit of work has an on-going musical learning focus and a unit specific focus to enable previous musical skills to be embedded.  Music lessons usually follow a specific learning sequence:

 

• Listen and Appraise
• Musical Activities (including pulse and rhythm)
• Singing and Voice
• Playing instruments
• Composition
• Perform and Share

 

Our progression model also follows the same learning sequence to ensure all interrelated elements of music are covered and implemented.

 

Music teaching at East Hanningfield is practical and engaging. A variety of teaching approaches and activities are provided based on teacher judgement and pupil ability. Lessons typically involve a combination of the following; games, songs, challenges, listening to music and discussing music, playing a range of musical instruments, performing back, finding the pulse and composing music using notation sheets. Open ended tasks are provided that can have a variety of responses and the teacher also differentiates activities using the Charanga Bronze, Silver and Gold challenges. Our mastery curriculum provides further enrichment opportunities throughout the year (see below) for children who show extensive aptitude in music.

 

Performance is at the heart of musical teaching and learning at East Hanningfield and all pupils participate in a key stage performance. Pupils also take part in Harvest assemblies, singing assemblies and pupils from reception to year 6 perform at our annual carol concert at the Church. Pupils who are confident are also encouraged to perform in solo performances. Parents are invited and welcomed to watch all of these performances whether at school or outside of school. Furthermore, pupils from reception to year 6 all attend our whole school pantomime at one of our local theatres.

 

At East Hanningfield music teaching is not only focused on performance but also providing our pupils with an understanding and appreciation for music. Through our music lessons children study a wide range of musical styles and genres from a range of musical periods. Some of the musical styles and genres we study are as follows: Mamma Mia, The Beatles, Jazz, Rap, Reggae, Motown, Michael Jackson, Hip Hop, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

 

Each class also studies a different composer throughout the year. ExampleS of the composers studied are as follows:-

• Mozart
• Vivaldi
• Bach
• Tchaikovsky
• Chopin
• Holst
• Beethoven

 

Alongside our curriculum provision for music, pupils also have the opportunity to participate in additional 1:1 music teaching. Pupils are offered the opportunity to learn a musical instrument with peripatetic teachers. Our peripatetic music teaching is organised by the Local Education Authority where lessons are provided weekly for a small set fee paid by the child’s parent or carer.  Instruments in the past have included: guitar, piano, keyboard and violin. Pupils that learn a musical instrument have the opportunity to sit examinations and perform at our carol concert and in out of school venues.

We provide opportunities for all pupils to learn a musical instrument should they wish to, regardless of their background. These clubs are offered for free to KS2 children to encourage participation and ensure disadvantaged pupils have the same opportunities has their peers. Pupils can also loan out the instruments to practise at home.

Pupils also have the opportunity to join the school choir . The school choir is open to all children on a weekly basis, with  a good take up across the school. Pupils in the school choir meet after school and focus on team work, singing in unison, developing harmony, solo performances and having fun! The school choir also have the opportunity to perform in school performances, carol concerts and singing assemblies.

 

Impact:

 

Our music Curriculum is high quality, well thought out and is planned to demonstrate progression and build on and embed current skills. We focus on progression of knowledge and skills in the different musical components and like in other subjects, discreet teaching of vocabulary also forms part of the units of work.

If children are achieving the knowledge and skills in lessons, then they are deemed to be making good or better progress.

We measure the impact of our curriculum through the following methods:

• Pupil discussions and interviewing the pupils about their learning (pupil voice).
• Governor monitoring with our subject music link governor.
• Moderation staff meetings with opportunities for dialogue between teachers.
• Annual reporting and tracking of standards across the curriculum.
• Photo evidence and images of the pupils practical learning.
• Video analysis through recording of performance in lessons.
• A reflection on standards achieved against the planned outcomes.
• Dedicated music leader time.

The impact of our music curriculum is also measured in the uptake of our music after school clubs and uptake of additional music 1:1 teaching. In addition to this, we also measure the impact of the class composers and routinely ask children about their composer/style of music they are learning.