Inspire • Enrich • Enjoy • Succeed

“Children use music to help maintain emotional and social well-being and celebrate culture and community in ways which involve entertaining or understanding themselves and making sense of the world around them.”

Burnard and Murphy, 2017

Our Music Curriculum aims to increase children’s self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement.  It enables every child to take part, succeed and, most importantly, enjoy what they are doing. Music is a key component to our rich and varied learning experiences within our federation, and its unique form of creativity offers our children the chance to develop their individual interests, talents and skills.

Our Music intent relates to our whole school intent, including and extending the EYFS Framework 2021 (in particular Expressive arts and design), and the National Curriculum Programmes of Study, as well as providing for the unique needs of the children within our federation family.

It is our intent that by the time children leave our school they will:

• Celebrate an enjoyment of music, having been exposed to the best thought and composed, and go on to value a love of music, confident to pursue their preferred musical style;

• Value the importance of Music locally, nationally and globally, possessing an awareness of its impact; and how it can represent culture and social aspects of the diverse world in which we live;

• Have gained a firm understanding of what music is through listening to, singing, playing, evaluating, analysing, and composing across a wide variety of historical periods, traditions, and musical genres, and be able to readily apply this to their next steps in learning;

• Possess the musical knowledge necessary to confidently and creatively express thoughts and feelings.

Our Music Curriculum is founded on the Kapow Primary scheme of work which provides a really comprehensive, motivating and progressive model, written by subject experts.  The curriculum has 5 strands that run throughout.  These are:

• Performing
• Listening
• Composing
• The history of music
• Inter-related dimensions of music

These strands are revisited in every unit with increasing complexity in a spiral curriculum model which promotes memory retention and allows pupils to revise and build on their previous learning.  Regular and repeated opportunities throughout the course of the academic year support a mastery approach to learning in Music. There is a continuous focus upon the knowledge and correct use of a rich and varied vocabulary.