Please take a look at our Music Development Plan for 2024-2025:
Music is a unique way of communicating that can inspire and motivate children. It reflects culture and society and so the teaching and learning of music enables children to appreciate the world in which they live. Music brings people together and helps children to feel part of a community. It lays the foundations for a life-long skill that the children can take with them to Secondary School and beyond.
The Music Curriculum:
The objectives for Music are set out in the National Curriculum:
Key Stage 1
Pupils should be taught to:
- use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants
- play tuned and untuned instruments musically
- 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.
Key Stage 2
Pupils should be taught to:
- play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression
- 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
- 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.
Children in Y3 and Y4 enjoy weekly lessons over a term from NMPAT learning Samba drumming which culminates in an amazing performance!
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First Access Staverton Primary School has a close relationship with NMPAT which underpins our First Access offer, ensuring that all our children have the opportunity to play a musical instrument as they move through the school. We want our children to know the enjoyment, self-achievement, interest and understanding of playing an instrument Peripatetic music teachers offer lessons in: · Strings (violin and ‘cello) · Brass (trombone, trumpet / cornet, horns, euphoniums) · Ukulele · Guitar (electric and acoustic) · Piano and Keyboard During this current academic year, 25% of our children will have lessons with a peripatetic music teacher. These lessons are held within school hours and monitored by the Music Curriculum Leader. The lessons have to be paid for by parents / guardians but the pupil premium can be used to enable disadvantaged pupils to access them if they choose. Instruments are available on loan from the music service for any child wanting to participate in these lessons. An annual report is written by the peripatetic teachers and parents can request a meeting to discuss their child’s progress. Details on applying for these lessons are sent out to parents/guardians on a regular basis and further information can be found on our school website. Children are encouraged to play these instruments in ensembles, weekly class music lessons and performances when opportunities arise. The school has a positive working relationship with NMPAT and actively encourages children to join one of the local Music and Arts Centres. Our Music Curriculum At Staverton CE Primary School Music is taught weekly by a Class Teacher or HLTA from Yrs 1 to 6. Each class has a one-hour lesson per week with children working as a whole class or in small groups. In our Nursery and Reception class, music is taught every week and is revisited throughout the week. Planning is based on KAPOW ensuring our planned curriculum matches the scope and ambition of the Model Music Curriculum: 2021. Content is adapted and scaffolded so that it meets the needs of our school and to ensure that all children are able to access the curriculum. Additional resources such as a range of percussion instruments are used to supplement the scheme and children with SEND have additional adult support to enable them to access music lessons. Our music lessons are taught using the same quality first teaching principles that we use across all other curriculum areas, based on the Rosenshine Principles. Within music, planning also identifies:
Children at Staverton Primary School have many varied opportunities to perform, experience and engage in musical experiences as they move through the school. These include:
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