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High quality music education can start children on a journey that lasts a lifetime. Teaching Primary Music gives beginning primary school teachers clear guidance on how to successfully teach music without recourse to specialized training. This helpful text places music within the wider context of the primary curriculum with clear links to the new National Curriculum in England. It also offers advice on how to provide evidence for and assess musical development and how to plan for music education across the EYFS and key stages 1 & 2. Useful information on using the musical resources in your local community to enhance the opportunities offered to your school is also provided. This is essential reading for all students studying primary music on initial teacher education courses, including undergraduate (BEd, BA with QTS), postgraduate (PGCE, School Direct, SCITT), and also NQTs. Alison Daubney is a music educator, researcher and curriculum adviser at the University of Sussex.
Music: The Heartbeat of the School and Curriculum
Music: The Heartbeat of the School and Curriculum
Like any other school we’re under pressure to deliver the results on the core subjects, but the creative arts are the key to unlocking the love of learning that we take very seriously. (Sue Bundy, deputy head teacher at Loughton Primary School, Milton Keynes, in Daubney et al., 2014: 28)
Introduction
Music is powerful. There is absolutely no doubt about its potential to draw children into learning, permeating the cultural fabric of every school. We must recognise and acknowledge how important music is to children’s lives and build on this, rather than ignoring it.
There is substantive empirical evidence about the power of music to help children develop all kinds of skills ...
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