Resources
Planning document for Curriculum 2008
Here is a planning document for units of work at Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3. As there are no significant changes to the musical content of the revised curriculum, the planning document allows schools to copy in the ‘Activities’, ‘Learning Objectives’ and ‘Resource Requirements’ of current schemes of work. The planning document lists the relevant skills of the Skills Framework, and some of the assessment for learning tools and strategies. By highlighting the relevant skills and learning tools (or by deleting those not relevant) schools will have an opportunity to recognise the potential for introducing new teaching and learning strategies, whilst also focusing on the skills of the framework.
Key Stage 3 Assessment Portfolios
Click here to access the revised pro-forma which WJEC is asking schools to complete when submitting their assessment portfolios. These will be standardised during our summer networking course on Thursday May 15th 2008.
Click here to access the level descriptors for KS3 under the headings of singing, instrumental performance, composing and appraising.
Draft Curriculum Response
Click here to see my own response to the draft orders for music.
Useful Websites
Carmarthenshire LEA is not responsible for the content of external internet sites
Subject Associations
- Click here for the website of CAGAC, the Welsh Authorties Music Education Association.
- Click here for the website of NAME, the National Association of Music Educators
Young Musician and Young Composer of Dyfed
- Click here for the websites of the Young Musician and Young Composer of Dyfed - including audio extracts.
General Resources
Sheet Music
- Click here for a website offering reasonably priced arrangements for school orchestras and ensembles
- Click here for a website where you can download sheet music for a very small charge.
- Click here for a website which offers a free download every month.
- Click here for a choral library with royalty free classical downloads.
Curriculum Materials
The Revised Skills Map sets out and exemplifies the skills which children acquire as they progress from the Foundation Phase to Key Stages 2 and 3. The skills are divided into the four areas of performing on instruments, singing, composing, and appraising. These skills may be used as the basis for 'Learning Objectives' within Schemes of Work. The skills identified at the transition point between Key Stages 2 and 3 may also be used as a starting point for discussion between secondary music departments and their partner primary schools in an effort to ensure greater continuity and progression across the transition.
The KS1/2 Exemplar Scheme of Work has been drawn up by experienced and successful primary school music coordinators, overseen by the Music Adviser. This exemplar scheme of work draws upon the LEA skills map for its learning objectives, and then provides schools with a wide range of possible activities and resources which may be used in order to give the children every opportunity of achieving those objectives. The exemplar scheme of work also provides guidance regarding coverage of the Common Requirements within the Welsh National Curriculum. The purpose of having the exemplar scheme of work as a downloadable document is to allow schools to adapt and amend the document for their own purposes.
The Key Stage 4 Exemplar Scheme of Work is based on the existing WJEC Specification for Music. It breaks down the specification into integrated units of work based on the five areas of study. The purpose of having this exemplar scheme of work as a downloadable document is to enable music departments to adapt and amend for their own purposes.