Music

Nottingham follows Arlington Public Schools Music Curriculum.  Through the music curriculum, students are actively engaged in activities which promote musical understanding. Early childhood education includes movement, creative play, singing, and instruments to introduce music concepts, such as steady beat, loud/soft, fast/slow, low/high and patterns.  Sound production is explored through rhythm instruments and pitch in introduced by barred instruments and bell chimes.

Middle and upper grade students build on the basic components of music (beat, rhythm, melody, harmony, form, etc.) through singing a variety of folk songs from the United States and around the world and playing rhythmic and melodic instruments (Orff) to accompany song material. In addition, music concepts are strengthened through games, activities, and manipulatives.  Students also dance and move to music in traditional and interpretative forms, improvise and compose music, and listen to music from various style periods and cultures.