We expect every child to develop a love and appreciation of music. Through practical lessons, they will grow as musicians, showcasing their skills through numerous performance opportunities. Pupils will experience music from different cultures, traditions and historical periods and learn to value music as a universal language and creative art.

Children will develop the musical skills of listening and appraising, singing, playing, composing and improvising, and performing. They will build musical vocabulary through the interrelated dimensions of music and develop an understanding of the history and cultural context of the music to which they are listening, responding or performing.

Our approach to music is a spiral curriculum, with essential skills and knowledge revisited with increasing complexity, allowing pupils to revise and build on their previous learning.  Lessons in EYFS start with developing a sense of beat and rhythm and ‘finding’ their singing voice. This builds through KS1 where the children continue to develop their voices as well as building on their musical skills using tuned and untuned percussion. In KS2, children develop their musicality through ensemble playing, both vocally and instrumentally, composition tasks, performance opportunities, understanding staff notation and listening and evaluating a wide range of musical styles. All pupils learn recorder from Years 2-4, and children in Year 2 and older have the opportunity of learning an instrument through our local music hub. As a whole school, children sing daily in collective worship.  There are a number of musical clubs for both KS1 and KS2 that children are able to join and throughout the year pupils are given many opportunities to perform in school, the local community and nationally.

Our desire is for all children to progress to secondary school able to express themselves musically as confident performers, imaginative composers and as evaluative listeners.