At our school, we believe that in order to succeed in music, confidence and feeling musical is key to becoming musicians. We develop skills alongside knowledge and achieve this though a diverse range of music and styles. We develop an understanding of historical significance and culture in order to deepen appreciation of the art. We aim to improve skills in order to allow our children to become confident performers, composers and listeners. Our mapping ensures that children are exposed to music from different cultures and generations in order to develop respect for all musical traditions and communities.
Curriculum Overview:
We follow a 2-year planning cycle in Key Stage 1 and a 4-year planning cycle in Key Stage 2, across a variety of topics and styles to ensure that children are exposed to the full breadth of the subject on a repeated basis. These are taken from Kapow and personalised to meet the needs of our children. It is a progressive scheme that allows skills to develop year on year. The topics below, show the outline of each cycle.
The skills covered of performing, listening, composing and appreciation of the history of music are not taught in isolation at our school. Instead, these are taught holistically, with singing, playing instruments, composing and listening to music all integrated into music lessons. This covers all aspects of the statutory National Curriculum and so aligns with the Model Music curriculum (released 2021)
We have updated our curriculum to include whole-class instrumental instruction in line with the DfE’s model music curriculum. Each unit focusses on music from a different part of the world and is taught on tuned percussion instruments.
