Music

Music Intent and Implementation

At Clayton St John Primary School, we teach Music in line with the National Curriculum. We want music lessons to be fun and inspiring, engaging the children with songs, lyrics and movement. We want children to feel able to be expressive and develop their own appreciation of music.  

Music is planned in line with the statements laid out in the national curriculum with Sing Up being used to provide extra support and resources to enhance music teaching. Sing Up provides many examples of music styles and genres from different times and places. These are explored through the language of music via active listening, performing and composing activities, which enable understanding of the context and genre.  

The Sing Up Scheme provides teachers with week-by-week lesson support for each year group in the school from Nursery to Year 6. It also provides essential teaching resources to aid with the delivery of lessons. The Scheme supports all the requirements of the national curriculum. 

Each Unit of Work comprises of the strands of musical learning which correspond with the national curriculum for music.

Through our music lessons children are actively involved in a wide range of musical opportunities. Children develop their singing voices, using body percussion and whole body actions, and learning to handle and play classroom instruments effectively to create and express their own and others’ music. Through a range of whole class, group and individual activities, children have opportunities to explore sounds, listen actively, compose and perform.  During music lessons children will be given opportunities to learn music specific vocabulary in a meaningful context. During the lesson children will be given the opportunities to apply skill and given chance for collaboration through composition.  