Our school follows the Kapow Primary music scheme.  This scheme focuses on developing the skills, knowledge and understanding that children need in order to become confident performers, composers, and listeners.  Our curriculum introduces children to music from all around the world and across generations, teaching children to respect and appreciate the music of all traditions and communities.

The children will develop the musical skills of singing, playing tuned and untuned instruments, improvising and composing music, and listening and responding to music. They will develop an understanding of the history and cultural context of the music that they listen to and learn how music can be written down.  Through music the children develop transferable skills such as team-working, leadership, creative thinking, problem-solving, decision-making, and presentation and performance skills.

Within the scheme the individual strands listed are woven together to create engaging and enriching experiences:

• Performing
• Listening
• Composing
• The history of music (Key Stage 2 only)
• The inter-related dimensions of music (pitch, duration, tempo, timbre, structure, texture and dynamics)

Within school we try to ensure children have a chance to perform in an ensemble with weekly singing assemblies as well as performances in class during lessons.  Each week the children are introduced to different types of music to listen and appreciate as they enter and exit daily assemblies.