Product Description: Music's place in the National Curriculum in England and Wales is now firmly established. This book is a guide to help all primary teachers, and those with a co-ordinating role who support them, develop music in their classrooms. it looks at children's learning in music, in the context of current thinking on primary education and the developments of primary music since 1991...read more

Composing is part if the mainstream music curriculum for many children yet children's music does not receive the same attention as their art or creative writing. Children Composing 4-14 traces the ways in which composing can be organised and taught within the school music curriculum, drawing on children's own music-making activities. This practical book looks at how teaching composing can enable hildren to progress by acquiring musical skills and understanding, whilst developing their own sense of musical purpose. One of the main concern's of the book is the need to sustain continuity and quality in children's composing experience as they mover through each phase of music education.Children's Composing is considered in relation to the wider musical context in which they grow up, including cultural differences in composing roles and in perceptions of composing and composers. Projects that bring children into contact with professional composers are critically examined, and suggestions are made for ways of ensuring that composing in schools is rooted in the musical world outside. For more information, please visit the authors web site at: http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/children-composing/

Product Description: This text examines how children learn music in the primary school, and presents a model for classroom teaching and assessment. This edition offers an updated account of National Curriculum and OFSTED developments in music, and includes revised sections on assessment, composition and the role of the music co-ordinator...read more

This text looks at the nature of children's learning in music in the context of current thinking in primary education. Two of the chapters are written by primary teachers. It examines the assessment of children's music and explores links between music and the other areas in the curriculum. The book gives practical examples and activities to help planning, and includes up-to-date reference to the National Curriculum. Music is a foundation subject in the UK National Curriculum. It is compulsory in primary schools with a set of specific attainment targets. This book examines how children learn music and presents a model for classroom teaching. It offers many practical ideas for implementing the music curriculum, and suggestions for making music part of the integrated primary curriculum. This book should be of interest to all primary school teachers and students in initial teacher training, all of whom are being confronted by the task of implementing the statutory orders for music from 1992. It will also be of interest to music curriculum specialists who wish to help their colleagues' staff development.