Music

Music is taught as a specialist subject from reception, with our full time music teacher taking all classes. We aim to introduce our children to a range of musical opportunities, with a strong emphasis on rhythm, pitch and tone from the start.

In lessons there is a strong focus on participation. The ethos is very much that everyone is musical in some way. Recorder is taught from Year 2 upwards, where all children are taught to read from notation. The glockenspiel is taught from Year 5 upwards, again with all children reading from notation. Children in all years are taught how to sing properly, with correct control of diaphragm and projection. Children play other instruments, as part of different schemes of work. There is, for example, an African Drumming scheme in Year 5.

Reflective composition is taught from Year 3 upwards, and by the end of Year 6, children will have composed in various styles, including '12 Bar Blues', 'Classical Rondos', and 'The Nutcracker', as well as having utilised Music Technology software on the computers to design music for Computer Games.