Music
A Curriculum for Excellence asks teachers to think about their educational aims and values and their classroom practice. It will give teachers more responsibility to use their professional judgement and creativity within broad parameters.
Although the 5-14 curriculum will be with us for the immediate future, use this short Reflection Guide to help you think about adapting your classroom practice in accordance with the principles and purposes of A Curriculum for Excellence.
Composing music about minibeasts
Minibeasts inspire these Primary 3 and 4 pupils to compose and record their own music. The pupils then arrange the tracks on the computer to create a final composition.
Young communicators make a pop video
For a citizenship project Primary 5 and 6 pupils made an award-winning pop video about their school and local community, with the theme ‘How to communicate with young people’.
Karaoke on an interactive whiteboard
In a music lesson for pupils with moderate learning difficulties, the teacher uses Balamory on the BBC website and karaoke software called VanBasco's Karaoke Player.
Creative responses to music
Windows Media Player visualisations helped stimulate children's responses to music.
African culture inspires clean water projects
African dance, music and art inspired pupils at Lunnasting Primary School to explore the importance of clean water and to develop new local and international links.
Recycling for music and art
Pupils at Roybridge Primary School re-used rubbish to make their own instruments, toys and artworks, and created a musical about recycling.
Drake Music Project Scotland
Set up in Scotland in 1997 and based in Edinburgh, Drake Scotland was founded to create opportunities for people with disabilities to make music.
An enterprising music and art project
Castlefield Primary School is embracing all the principles of Curriculum for Excellence with projects based around enterprise, music, creativity, and getting the local community involved.