Music
Mrs Butler is our Music Curriculum Advocate.
We aim to give every child the opportunity to participate in and enjoy a variety of musical activities, developing musical knowledge and skills in an imaginative, practical and engaging way, inspiring them as musicians.
Our Music Curriculum
Across the Fellowship we deliver a curriculum which is carefully planned and sequenced to ensure children acquire the musical knowledge and skills to enable them to develop as musicians as they grow through the school. We aim to give all children the opportunity to participate in and enjoy a variety of musical activities, developing their musical knowledge and skills, allowing them to compose, listen and appraise with discernment. We want to engage and inspire our pupils to develop a love of music as well as their talent as musicians, and so increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement. We recognise and celebrate diversity as something that transcends musical boundaries and which can unite people from all over the world.
We implement this by building music into our everyday lives: singing is a big part of this whether in classes, in worship times or in choir. Singing helps demonstrate many of the practical skills we are trying to teach, as well as developing pitch and ear, encouraging performance and appraisal. Songs and musical games are suggested for each year group to allow the children to develop skills in a coherent way that will enable them to make progress from class to class.
Children are taught specific musical vocabulary for each stage, each building on the previous one. Children learn to use both graphic and formal notation to record and extend their compositions. Cross curricular opportunities are established and developed, particularly links with PSHE, mindfulness and Mental Health along with ‘Primary Provocations’.
The Music Curriculum is based around the Kapow music scheme across the two schools. All classes have access to weekly singing worships which further develop many key skills.
