Music

The Music curriculum is informed by the ‘Model Music Curriculum’ and learning is carefully sequenced for all year groups using Kapow. Units are linked to the topics and key skills taught that term. Throughout the year the children have opportunities to; perform, listen, compose and explore inter-related dimensions of music: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, texture, structure, timbre. As well as this they also learn about the history of music, learning about different styles and composers/ artists.

There is a dedicated curriculum music lesson on the school timetable each week for all year groups, but children have other opportunities throughout the week, such as focused listening opportunities in daily worship or alongside art sessions, singing opportunities and recall of nursery rhymes in class, choir clubs, and peripatetic music lessons. This ensures that they are accessing opportunities and learning in music for a minimum of an hour per week.  In line with the DfE’s 2020 Model Music Curriculum, Kapow Primary’s KS2 whole-class instrumental scheme is taught using a progressive collection of lessons. Each unit focuses on music from a different part of the world and features a bespoke piece of music composed specifically for the scheme, including learning music notation. In EYFS the children focus on being imaginative and expressive. They learn to sing a range of well-known nursery rhymes and songs, perform songs, rhymes, poems and stories with others, and move in time with music.