Music Overview 2024-25
| Intent |
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| Our curriculum is all the planned activities that we as a school organise, in order to promote learning, personal growth and development. It includes, not only the formal requirements of the National Curriculum (2014), but also the range of extra-curricular activities that the school provides in order to enrich the experience of our children. It also includes the ‘hidden curriculum’, or what the children learn from the way they are treated and expected to behave. We aim to teach children how to grow into positive, resilient and responsible people, who can work and co-operate with others, whilst developing knowledge, skills and attitudes to learning, in order that they achieve their true potential. |
| Implementation |
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| Music is an important feature of Hillside Primary School; the children are able and enthusiastic singers, with a song for every occasion. Singing is a real strength within our school and everyone is encouraged to join in, whatever their ability. Kapow Primary is used to deliver our Music Curriculum. We follow Kapow’s Main Music scheme of work, as well as their instrumental Music scheme of work. Year 4 have access to whole class instrument tuition for 10 weeks/lessons. This year, the Year 4 pupils have the opportunity to play trumpets (lessons delivered by the Norfolk Music Hub via Charanga with Richard Ward). Music is taught in EYFS through songs and activities. In KS1 and KS2, the pupils have music lessons lasting one hour, in alternate half-terms. Singing assemblies are led by the Music Lead, Mr Ainslie. The children have the opportunity to sing along to recorded soundtracks and also to warm-up their voices to piano or vocal stimuli. The majority of songs taught during assemblies are from Out of the Ark, designed for all the seasons. The children have an input into which songs they would like to sing and are very enthusiastic too. The school choir remains incredibly popular with pupils across the school. The choir has performed regularly in front of the school during various events, including within school assembly and specifically the Harvest assembly. This year, they will be performing at the Festival of Carols with the GYSMA which will be wonderful for them. We will be performing Christmas shows again to give the pupils the opportunity to perform in front of a live audience. These were incredibly successful last year which were the first performances since the pandemic with a large audience. It is the plan that all children within Hillside will learn to play a variety of instruments throughout their primary school experience and, through this, consolidate their learning and understanding of the basics of music, its theory, practice and enjoyment, whilst covering all the objectives of the National Curriculum. We continue to offer peripatetic instrument lessons to KS2 pupils for drums and guitar. Many children in KS2 take part in these lessons on a weekly basis. |
| Impact |
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| · 66%-87% of the children are achieving at least the expected standard in music, with 3% of the children in Year 6 achieving above the expected standard. Some of the higher levels of achieving the expected standard were in Year 1 (83%), Year 3 (84%) and Year 6 (87%). · Many children receive weekly tuition for a wide range of instruments and are making fantastic progress with their teachers. · Pupils really enjoy music and there is effective coverage/progress across the school. |
