Music

“Where words fail, music speaks.”

Hans Christian Andersen

We follow the Charanga Music Scheme, which provides a high-quality, progressive curriculum that nurtures every child’s musical understanding, creativity and confidence. The scheme ensures a broad and balanced music education, aligned with the National Curriculum, and supports pupils in developing a lifelong love of music.

Our Music curriculum is organised around the key interrelated dimensions of music — pulse, rhythm, pitch, tempo, dynamics, timbre, texture and structure — and offers opportunities for children to explore these through listening, singing, playing, composing and performing. Lessons are carefully sequenced to build musical skills and understanding year on year, with clear progression from EYFS to Year 6.

Through Charanga, pupils experience a wide range of musical styles, genres and traditions, including classical, popular and world music. They learn to sing with confidence, play tuned and untuned instruments, create and notate their own compositions, and appraise music with increasing sophistication, with pupils given regular opportunities to share their learning and celebrate their achievements through assemblies, concerts and wider school events.