Our Music Curriculum Intent: 

Music allows children to develop self-confidence, creativity and a sense of achievement. Through music lessons, children develop musical skills and participate in a variety of musical experiences to develop a love of music and develop their talent as musicians. They learn to listen and to appreciate different forms of music across different time periods, cultures and traditions. This supports children to understand the cultural capital of being open-minded in their listening as well as knowledgeable about a breadth of musical genres in the world today. Music supports our aim to encourage children to be the kind of person they aspire to be and helps them contribute to the kind of world in which they want to live.

Implementation:

We use the Sing Up scheme for music and we are currently accessing support for curriculum development from York Music Hub.

We follow Sing Up's year rolling programme of units for each year group from YR to Y6 that meets the requirements of the National Curriculum, the Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage (Expressive Arts) and the suggested approaches of the Model Music Curriculum. 

Sing Up supports a fully-integrated approach to musical development, connecting the interrelated strands of singing, playing, improvising, composing, listening and appraising. 

How we promote a love of music:

Children have the opportunity to receive small group and individual tuition from a specialist teachers. Children in Years 2 - 6 have the opportunity to learn to play the recorder. Our specialist music teachers offers lessons in singing, piano, flute, clarinet, saxophone and more!

Children who learn an instrument regularly perform in assemblies and also during our church events. 

We have become hosts Rocksteady on a weekly basis, where we have 5 rock bands made up of 6-8 children from right across the school. The children learn to play the drums, the keyboard, the bas guitar and the electric guitar during these sessions and have the opportunity to perform in a concert at the end of each term.

We run a choir, Stockton Songbirds, each week where we ensure opportunities for the children to perform to an audience, and we hold a whole school singing assembly every Thursday.