The Subject Leader for music is Mrs Sherlock

Music is a strength of the school and there are many opportunities for the children to take part in this area. It is a way of communicating with others, providing creative stimulus and enjoyment and encouraging co-operation between participants. Music is not intended to cater for the needs of just the talented; everyone can derive considerable fulfilment and enjoyment from studying and practising music.

We use the Kapow scheme for music to ensure that music is taught at a consistently high standard across year groups. The scheme develops the skills, knowledge, and understanding needed to become confident performers, composers, and listeners. The curriculum introduces pupils to music from across the world, encouraging respect and appreciation for the music of all traditions and communities.

Pupils build musical skills through singing, playing tuned and untuned instruments, improvising, composing and listening and responding to music. They develop an understanding of the historical and cultural context of the music they encounter and learn how music can be notated.

The scheme also supports the development of transferable skills, including teamwork, leadership, creative thinking, problem-solving, decision-making and presentation and performance abilities. These skills are integral to pupils’ development as learners and have wide application in their lives beyond school.

By the end of EYFS children will: 

• use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes
• play tuned and untuned instruments musically and move their bodies with a strong sense of pulse
• listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music
• experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music.

By the end of KS1 children will: 

• use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes
• play tuned and untuned instruments musically with a strong sense of pulse and rhythm
• listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music
• experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music
• follow musical notation to play rhythms and pitches individually and as a group through WCIT on glockenspiel. 

By the end of KS2 children will:

• play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression
• play melodic instruments with accuracy and confidence (recorders and glockenspiels) 
• improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music
• listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory
• use and understand staff and other musical notations to read and compose
• appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians
• develop an understanding of the history of music.

We are fortunate at our school to have many opportunities throughout the year for children to make music, perform and learn instruments with peripatetic teachers who visit our school weekly.

EYFS children have the opportunity to:

• Sing weekly in singing assembly.
• Welcomed to the school through a Welcome Service at Church.
• Perform as a Key Stage at church services throughout the year: Harvest, Mother's Day, Easter.
• Perform in the Nativity at church.
• Perform as a school at the Music and Dance Festival (Summer Term).

Key Stage 1 children have the opportunity to:

• Sing weekly in singing assembly.
• Have a half term of WCIT of bucket drums (Year 1).
• Have a term of WCIT on glockenspiel (Year 2).
• Perform as a Key Stage at church services throughout the year: Harvest, Mother's Day, Easter.
• Perform in the Nativity at church.
• Perform as a school at the Music and Dance Festival (Summer Term).

Key Stage 2 children have the opportunity to:

• Sing weekly in singing assembly.
• Have a term of WCIT on recorder (Y3).
• Sing in the choir with Mrs Peall (They perform at least 4 times a year, including Young Voices!).
• Play in the recorder club with Mrs Sherlock (They perform at least 3 times a year).
• Perform as a Key Stage at church services throughout the year: Harvest, Chistingle, Easter, Father's Day.
• Perform as a school at the Music and Dance Festival (Summer Term).
• Perform in a musical production (Year 5 & 6)
• Have lessons with peripatetic teachers on drums, music tech, piano, guitar, ukulele, glockenspiel and singing. 
• Perform on their instruments to other classes and parents.