‘If you don’t have the possibility of listening to music, you can’t know if you’ll love it’ – Andrea Bocelli.
From September 2023, for Music, we have chosen to use KAPOW. The curriculum ensures children have high quality musical learning in relation to:
- Performing
- Listening
- Composing
- The history of music
- Inter-related dimensions of music: pulse, pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure, musical notation
The intent of our music curriculum is first and foremost to promote a love of music and for children to feel they are musical and can participate with enjoyment and passion. We focus on developing musical skills, knowledge and understanding to enable children to become confident performers, composers and listeners. As a school, we have chosen to use KAPOW as a central curriculum as it introduces children to music from around the world and across generations. Children will respect and appreciate the music of all traditions and communities.
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 they listen to and learn how music can be written down.
The curriculum will also develop transferrable skills such as team-work, leadership, creative thinking, problem solving, decision making and presentation and performance skills. These are vital skills and will help children to develop as positive citizens as they work within our core values of:
Community
Kindness
Respect
Independence
Resilience
Positivity
Excellence
Enjoyment
The curriculum in place for music ensures pupils meet the end of Key Stage Attainment targets as outlined in the National Curriculum.