Jen’s Blog

I’ve just read Krizzia’s post about integrating music into the curriculum. She is right when she says that many teachers do not have music experience. I have seen in some of my prac schools this overcome by having a specialist music teacher. However, even with an RFF teacher, the time spent on Music is roughly 30mins per class. This is not enough time! Sadly, music is an area often neglected, or if done, generally consists of singing. There is so much more to music than this!

I have watched the children in my pracs when I’ve done music with them (meaningful lessons, not just singing) and they have loved every minute! Kids enjoy music.

I was chatting to an RFF music teacher yesterday about her lessons. She was explaining that she was teaching kids to write rhythms in music notation. These were simple simple rhythms but she explained that the kids LOVED creating. She said on their sheets many of the kids had written “Created by …” or “Composed by…” rather than just their name.

Music is such a rich area which children love to do! More teachers should get on board… there are soo many resources online as well that can be used which require very little musical knowledge to use!