We use Charanga’s English Model Music Curriculum Scheme to support our teaching of Music. The scheme follows a spiral approach to musical learning, with children revisiting, building and extending their knowledge and skills incrementally. In this manner, their learning is consolidated and augmented, increasing musical confidence and enabling them to go further. Teachers adapt their teaching to respond to the strengths and needs of the children they teach.
Lessons are based on the principle that it should be fun and engaging for all concerned, and that every child is a born musician. Music plays a role in every aspect of our lives, wherever and whoever we are.
Children participate in a range of musical activities, which include singing, composing and performing using tuned and percussion instruments. They listen to and discuss a variety of styles of music. In Key Stage 2 the children are taught by a music specialist. Children also have the opportunity to learn a brass, string or woodwind instruments through the Local Authority Music Service or Music for Schools Foundation.
There are also school clubs for Music which currently include a choir who last year performed for the local community dementia group.