Key Stage 1
Music
At Chalfont St. Giles Infant School & Nursery children engage with music in a number of ways.
Weekly Music lessons
Each class takes part in a music lesson every week. During these sessions, the children may be asked to do a number of different things including:
- listen to a piece of music and respond to it, by saying how it made them feel or by moving their bodies;
- learn a song;
- identify the beat and clap along;
- describe how an instrument is played;
- play some percussion instruments in a variety of ways and contexts.
Assemblies
Each week, music by a different composer is played as the children enter and exit the hall for assembly. They are challenged to pronounce and remember their names and sometimes asked to find out something specific about them by the end of the week. We spend half an hour each week learning and practising songs in a whole school singing assembly.
Public performances
Throughout the school year, there are a number of opportunities for the children to take part in a variety of public performances, including the Christmas play, services for Harvest, Christmas, Easter and a flower festival in the village church and class assemblies. During these performances children sing songs and take part in learnt dances whilst their parents watch.
Learning an instrument
At Chalfont St. Giles Infant School, children are offered the chance to learn to play instruments privately at various stages:
- Guitars - Year 2.
- Recorders - Year One and Year Two.