Detail |
Information |
Academic year that this summary covers |
2024 - 25 |
Date this summary was published |
September 2024 |
Date this summary will be reviewed |
September 2025 |
Name of the school music lead |
H Boulby/K Mannifield |
Name of school leadership team member with responsibility for music (if different) |
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Name of local music hub |
Kirklees Musica |
Name of other music education organisation(s) (if partnership in place) |
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This is a summary of how our school delivers music education to all our pupils across three areas – curriculum music, co-curricular provision and musical experiences – and what changes we are planning in future years. This information is to help pupils and parents or carers understand what our school offers and who we work with to support our pupils’ music education.
This is about what we teach in lesson time, how much time is spent teaching music and any music qualifications or awards that pupils can achieve.
Music is a practical, creative subject, which can be of benefit to all children in developing imagination, the ability to listen attentively and the ability to express personal thoughts and feelings. It is a valuable vehicle for encouraging spiritual, moral, social and cultural development and promoting diversity. As part of a broad and balanced curriculum, Scissett CE Academy aims to develop pupils’ understanding and enjoyment of music, through activities that bring together the skills of music appreciation, composing and performing. In line with our School Vision, we provide opportunities for all children to achieve success, to respond to music in a variety of ways, and to develop confidence and enthusiasm in listening to, creating and performing music. We aim to broaden children’s experience of the wealth of different music from around the world and through history, and to develop their ability to listen with discrimination and respect, and discuss their ideas knowledgeably and with awareness of emotional impact. At Scissett CE Academy, our children’s musical journeys begin in EYFS, through singing songs, playing musical games, making sounds and purposeful silences using instruments, keeping a beat, and responding to music through hand or body movements, voices and mood. These foundations are built upon in Key Stages 1 and 2, where we have devised a scheme of work combining songs and whole class-instrumental resources from the commercial ‘Charanga’ scheme and bespoke, thematic units that make cross-curricular links with other subjects studied by each year group, such as Space, South America, Glorious Gardens, Castles (Medieval Music) and Animal Magic. Within these units, all children experience activities that fulfil the following strands:
Within these strands, the musical elements of pitch, duration, timbre, texture, dynamics and structure are progressively introduced, enabling children to discuss music with understanding and relevant vocabulary. In Key Stage 2, musical literacy is gradually developed, allowing children to read and write standard staff notation in both rhythm (Years 3 and 4) and pitch (Year 5). Music lessons are weekly, allowing a build-up of skills and knowledge through the year, rather than in short blocks, where learning may be forgotten. We present positive images of music and musicians, and the curriculum reflects a wide range of cultures and traditions. Our children will experience music from different periods of the “classical” music tradition, world music from Africa, China, India, the Caribbean and South America, and a variety of modern genres including pop, jazz, rock and film music, providing effective cultural capital. Singing forms an important part of school life, in Collective Worship, Key Stages, and in individual classes, and is ongoing throughout the school year. Each class is also given instrumental tuition throughout the year: glockenspiel in Key Stage 1 and Recorder in Key Stage 2, allowing a good degree of expertise to be reached in these particular instruments, and providing a good platform for children to further their learning in other instruments through individual, peripatetic lessons should they wish to. In our School, every class from Y1 upwards receives an hour of music teaching each week, as delivered by our music specialist Mrs Boulby. |
This is about opportunities for pupils to sing and play music, outside of lesson time, including choirs, ensembles and bands, and how pupils can make progress in music beyond the core curriculum.
At our school there are a wealth of opportunities to build and enhance our music skills and knowledge. From EYFS, where we use singing everyday to learn our language skills and to develop working as a group, we build on this as we get older. Within our Worship times we often sing and we have one Worship time each week where we focus on singing and the collective power of the voice. There are opportunities across other lessons to build in opportunities to sing or create music. This can range from singing times tables in maths lessons to our creative RE sessions where children can use music to express their thoughts and ideas. These activities can take the form of individual performance, small group collaborations or whole class work. Some of our music themes have been carefully chosen to match areas of study in different year groups ie Y5 study Earth and Space in Science and they also study The Planets or in Year 2 children study Castles and their development and they study some early medieval music. Within school we have several children who are working with the local Music school and we have lessons of percussion, guitar, piano, flute and brass. These are available through Musica and usually take place in school. As a school, we do offer a 50% support for the fees for children who are entitled to Pupil Premium. These occur on a weekly basis. Our Choir, is an after-school club, which runs throughout the year. They will often work towards a performance of some kind; travelling to local residential homes at Christmas to perform or entertaining the school community in our Musical Showcase. As a member of Kirklees Musica, children have access to one-to-one, small-group and large-group tuition for instruments or voice. They also have access to choirs or vocal ensembles, as well as instrumental ensembles, bands and groups, and other forms of music-making. |
This is about all the other musical events and opportunities that we organise, such as singing in assembly, concerts and shows, and trips to professional concerts.
We endeavour to create a range of experiences for the children to take part in throughout their time with us. Alongside the singing and music opportunities found in our Worship times, there are other special occasions that we use to celebrate the musical talents of our children. This can be our Nativity productions for EYFS to Y2, where our children use music and dance to tell the story of the Nativity. We also have a We Are Different, We Are The Same week where children will encounter and explore music from different cultures. This has included Indian dance, Chinese Ribbon dancing and African Drumming. One of the highlights of our year is our Musical Showcase, where every class performs to a large audience. We have soloists, class groups and the whole school singing and working together for this. Our Y5’s have the opportunity to perform at the Town Hall and be part of the Kirklees Musical Festival. Last year our Year 4’s performed at the Town Hall and on Zoom nationally as part of a Royal Opera House project. We have chances to listen to live music. We are visited by our local Middle school, who will come and introduce us to different Musical instrument families. We visit a local Pantomime each year. Our Year 5s had the opportunity last year to go to a performance of The Planets, performed by a full orchestra. If we are travelling to events, we often ask for a contribution to the transport element of the event. For any recipient of Pupil Premium, we will offer a 50% discount to help with the cost of this. |
This is about what the school is planning for subsequent years.
At Scissett, we will continue to keep our music provision growing and developing the strengths. Our music curriculum is reviewed each year. We are always looking for more opportunities to bring musicians into school and we are looking into class trips to experience a different type of show other than a pantomime, allowing a different response to a live event. We are also interested in looking growing our performance links across our MAT of schools. |