The PE curriculum and vision

The teaching of Music at Manadon Vale follows the National Curriculum, delivered predominantly through the Charanga Scheme. This scheme has been adapted to a bespoke Manadon version and is supplemented with additional practical activities, particularly topic-based composition opportunities. Embedded in Manadon’s Music Unit Map is a carefully designed and challenging progressive plan of the various musical skills and strands, to ensure that children are constantly developing and improving as musicians throughout their Manadon journey. 

At Manadon, children gain their love of music and skills from inclusive participation in fun, engaging and practical activities. They sing, play instruments, perform, improvise, compose, notate, listen and appraise, continuously increasing their musical vocabulary and enjoying music with a range of history, culture and style. They progressively learn about the inter-related strands of pulse, rhythm and duration, pitch, dynamics, tempo, timbre, structure, texture and notation, linking and combining their learning in these strands when they compose.

Children at Manadon enjoy a well-resourced music room – they play a wide range of quality tuned and untuned percussion instruments. We are a ‘Singing School’ where everyone sings regularly, to further extend our musical skills and understanding, but also to have fun and bring our community together. 

The inspiration from quality music curriculum provision results in many children also choosing to learn an instrument in small peripatetic groups and every Year 3 class learns the violin. Large numbers of children also choose to commit to the extra-curricular choirs and orchestra. We love to perform at larger scale events, at school, in our local community and nationally! 

At Manadon Vale, we are all musicians!

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Year 1 have been measuring length and height using non-standard and standard units of measure. The children worked collaboratively to measure using rulers-recording in centimetres.
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🎄🎼 A gentle reminder to all KS2 children to wear school uniforms tomorrow! 🥰🎄
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🎼🎄 Music Club were *chefs kiss* perfection at The Lord Mayor's Carol Concert at St Andrew's Ministry this morning! The grown ups shed a few tears, they sounded so beautiful - hoping to share the audio from our songs soon! Have a fabulous weekend, Music Club! You deserve it 🌟🌟🌟
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Well done to the netball team this morning. They played brilliantly as a team!
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🎉 Year 2's Great Fire of London Reenactment! 🔥 This term, Year 2 has had an amazing time learning about the Great Fire of London and its history. We even recreated the event ourselves! 🔥🏠 From building our own model houses to watching the fire spread, it was a hands-on way to experience history and understand how the fire changed London forever. Well done, Year 2! 👏
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🎼🎄💚 Music Club had the best time singing at the Home Park Carol Service - Manadon were absolutely fantastic and we are so, so proud of them!🌟 A special 'thank you' to all our families, friends and staff who braved the traffic to come and support the children. 🥰 Two concerts down, 1 more to go! 💙🎼
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What wonderful performances by Foundation Stage and Key Stage One. We are SO proud of Seahorses and Turtles! 🎄
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Year 6 Christmas lunch was enjoyed by all of the children. 🎄🎅
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Seahorses and Turtles loved Christmas jumper day and enjoyed our yummy lunch! A big thank you to the kitchen staff 👏🏽
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Year 3 had a very happy Christmas jumper day!
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We are very proud of Year 1 for performing so well in their Nativity this week - what stars you all are!
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Yummy Christmas Lunch and Christmas Jumper day🎄
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Dolphins performed brilliantly in their nativity 👏🏼 and have enjoyed their Christmas lunch this afternoon 🎄
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🎼Reminder for Orchestra🎼 Miss Eastgate has sent an email reminder but just in case ... can all KS2 children in our school Orchestra please bring in their instruments tomorrow? 😊 Thank you!
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