Music Enjoying music, and enabling all children to participate fully in a wide range of music-making activities, are key features of the music curriculum. In the music curriculum children will have opportunities to listen and respond to a wide range of music styles and traditions, including the many forms of Irish music. Responses will occur in various ways, for example moving, dancing, illustrating, story telling, discussion or making a drama. Song singing is a central aspect of the music curriculum and from this, children will be introduced to music reading and writing in small steps, and the playing of classroom instruments.
Composing is a new and exciting aspect of the music curriculum.
The children will enjoy exploring sound, playing with simple musical ideas and experiencing the satisfaction of working alone or with others to create their own simple compositions. Teachers and pupils will also encounter the musical elements or 'building blocks' of music and will be enabled to develop conceptual understanding of music thought active engagement in each of the strands. The visual arts curriculum emphasises the importance of both making arts and responding to art. There is also an important focus on the creative process and on developing an understanding of visual concepts. Schools will be able to play a creative and enjoyable programme based on the six strands of the visual arts curriculum.