Music

At Victoria Road Primary, we aim to support all pupils need to meet the National Curriculum end of key stage targets in Music.  Children gain a firm understanding of what music is through listening, singing, playing, evaluating, analysing, and composing across a wide variety of historical periods, styles, traditions, and musical genres.

The aims of our Music curriculum are to develop pupils who:

• Enjoy and have an appreciation for music.
• Listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, cultures, styles and traditions.
• Can sing and use their voices to create different effects.
• Create and compose music, both on their own and with others.
• Use a range of musical vocabulary.
• Make judgments and express personal preferences about the quality and style of music.
• Take part in performances with an awareness of the audience.

Our Music curriculum ensures opportunities for children to sing, listen and appraise, play, perform, improvise and compose. This is embedded in the classroom activities as well as assembly singing, various concerts and performances and the learning of instruments.  Music teaching at Victoria Road delivers the requirements of the National Curriculum through use of the Kapow scheme of work. Through the online musical program Kapow, teachers are able to produce inclusive lessons for all children to access the musical curriculum in a fun and engaging way, further promoting a love of learning. Teachers deliver music following the Kapow programme, designed specifically for the teaching of music in primary schools. Kapow lessons are planned in sequences to provide children with the opportunities to review, remember, deepen and apply their understanding. The elements of music are taught in classroom lessons so that children are able to use some of the language of music to dissect it, and understand how it is made, played, appreciated and analysed. In the classroom, as part of Kapow, children learn how to play the glockenspiel and a variety of un-tuned percussion instruments. In addition, children access whole class tuition from visiting specialist tutors allowing opportunities for playing guitar and gospel singing.  

The Music Curriculum at Victoria Road is planned to demonstrate progression and build on and embed current skills. We focus on progression of knowledge and skills in the different musical components. If children are achieving the knowledge and skills in lessons, then they are deemed to be making good or better progress. The impact of the scheme can be monitored through both formative and summative assessments opportunities.  In addition, we measure the impact of our curriculum through pupil discussions and interviewing the pupils about their learning (pupil voice) and photo or video evidence of the pupil’s practical learning.