Our Music curriculum has been designed to build on our children’s cultural capital, through our curriculum drivers, children’s interests, and the requirements of the National curriculum’s ‘Model Music Curriculum’ and the new ‘Statutory Framework for Early Years’. This is to enable our children to; acquire a widening repertoire and appreciation of a range of musical genres and their historical origins as well as growing their musical knowledge, musicianship, and vocabulary to ignite a love for creating original and imaginative composing and performance work.
Our Music curriculum provides a coherent, structured, academic curriculum that leads to sustained mastery for all and a greater depth of understanding for those who are able. It sets out a clear list of what will be covered for each year group which ensures each teacher, even as a non-specialist, has clarity as to what to cover, the disciplinary knowledge children should understand, and the criteria for progression.
Our Key Music concepts: singing, listening, composing, musicianship, and performing are organised so that children can return to the same concepts over and over so they gradually build a secure musical understanding and appreciation.
Our music progression clearly shows the expectations for all children at the end of each school term.
Music is taught as a discrete subject every week in Reception and KS1 following the Leicestershire Music scheme of work alongside our music spine and introduction to instruments. This is built upon during whole school and year group assemblies alongside a weekly 40-minute music assembly. In the nursery, music is interweaved throughout all areas of learning with a particular emphasis on communication and language, and phonics and alongside our nursery rhyme spine. Music disciplinary knowledge is revisited in all years so it is built upon across the 4 years of our children’s time here. This ensures progression and enables children to create a music schema and move their learning from working in to long term memory.
Our children love music; they are confident to talk about all aspects of our music curriculum using the correct musical vocabulary, they have learned to appreciate many different types of music, enjoy making and performing music and the children are aware of musical opportunities available to them now and in later life.
Our explicit teaching with continual assessment for learning and music progression ensures that teachers are clear about the progress and attainment of each child.
Opportunities for the future
We ensure our children are made aware of jobs they could aspire to do in the future as a musician: video and sound engineers, music directors/conductors, music teacher, DJ, musical therapist, music journalist, music agent, song writer, musical theatre performer, session singer/musician, record producer
In Class learning 2025-2026
Musical Experiences
Reception exploring percussion instruments to create their own class orchestra
Our children thoroughly enjoyed the energetic rock band performance, which brought excitement and smiles to everyone involved!
Our children enjoyed a special visit today from some talented musicians showcasing their talent through playing the violin and chello.
Pulse
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I can imitate movements in response to music
I can keep a steady pulse with some accuracy
I can create a piece of music using long and short sounds
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In this unit the children have been exploring pulse and rhythm. They have composed their own piece of music in groups using stick notation for crotchets, paired quavers and crotchet rests. The children performed their compositions demonstrating they can follow the rhythm responding to the visual cues.
