Music

Music Curriculum

Curriculum Intent:

We want children at Shebbear to develop a love of music which will last them a lifetime. Our curriculum allows the children the opportunity to develop the skills needed to produce music of their own through composition and performance. They will begin to develop an understanding of musical notation so others can play what they have composed. Similarly, we want the children to have an appreciation of different styles of music and build their knowledge of great composers, performers and different genres of music. The children have the opportunity to sing both in lessons and through weekly school singing sessions.
They can perform in front of an audience through events such as our harvest festival and Christmas production. We want children to have the opportunity to learn an instrument and use specialist teachers to support this. Similarly, we provide opportunities in music lessons to learn the basics through collaborations with the music service who provide sets of instruments, such as brass, to allow the children to both learn to play and perform to an audience.

We try to enrich the curriculum further by providing opportunities to see professional musicians perform. We believe that our music curriculum helps build cultural capital amongst the children and makes music as accessible as possible to all of our pupils.

We employ a music teacher to deliver our music curriculum throughout the school to ensure the children have the best possible opportunity to learn a love and appreciation for this subject.  We also have two peripatetic music teachers who offer one to one lessons with approximately a third of children taking up this opportunity.

Skills Progression