At St Mary's, we have designed our music curriculum which enables children to:
- Develop a passion for music, in which pupils learn to appreciate music and develop a life-long love of music.
- Develop their skills, knowledge and understanding, to enable them to be become confident performers, composers and listeners
- Are introduced to a variety of genres of music from around the world and across generations, recognising the multicultural nature of our school and how we use music as a medium to explore and appreciate British and other cultures
- Develop their musical skills through singing, playing tuned and untuned instruments, composing music and responding to music that they listen to
- Develop transferrable skills which are key in their development as learners and have a wider application in their lives both inside and outside of school e.g.: team-working, leadership, creative thinking, decision-making and performance skills.
Our music curriculum is taught:
- Progressively so that it begins in the Early Years, where the children’s musical awareness is developed to support their imagination and creativity.
- So that the individual strands of music are interwoven in lessons to create engaging, enriching learning that progresses through the years and throughout the key stages. Music lessons comprise of: performing, listening, composing, the history of music and the interrelated dimensions of music.
- Pupils knowledge is built upon year-on-year.
- Using Kapow Primary’s Music scheme of work. This ensures that previous skills and knowledge are returned to and built upon. This allows pupil progress to be developed as they will be able to undertake more complex tasks, whilst tackling simple tasks with greater ease and accuracy. As pupils’ skills are developing, their understanding of the history of music, composition skills and interrelated dimensions of music are also being furthered
- Working alongside County Music, who provide a half term of specialist musical instrument tuition to each class.
- If pupils wish to learn how to play a musical instrument, they are enabled to do this with the direction of specialised music teachers who visit the school to deliver lessons