Our curriculum:

Music contributes significantly to the ethos of our school; it is an integral part of daily assembly and special celebrations.

Sing Up Music provides us with the foundation to deliver a creative programme of high-quality classroom music activity. It sets out the skills, knowledge, and understanding to be gained by all pupils at each stage of learning, including the Early Years Foundation Stage. Sing Up’s music curriculum, with a scheme of work for each year group from Year R to Year 6, represents a progressive set of teaching resources that meets the requirements of the Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage (Expressive Arts), the National Curriculum for Music and suggested approaches of the Model Music Curriculum (Singing, Listening, Composing, Performance/Instrumental Performance). Covering a broad and diverse range of repertoire, approaches, and musical traditions, Sing Up Music supports a fully-integrated approach to musical development, connecting the interrelated strands of singing, playing, performing, composing, improvising, listening, and appraising.

We make links through concepts, looking back at prior learning across the approaches from the model music curriculum, as well as through planned long-term and medium-term retrieval tasks. Links are made to religion and culture through the curriculum.

Through a broad and balanced curriculum, we provide a variety of musical experiences which develops learning, improves knowledge and promotes pupil well-being through building up the confidence of all children.  Music can impact the way that children feel, think and act; our music curriculum encourages the body and mind to work together, develop motor skills and allow self-expression within our pupils.