Intent

Music is an integral part of life at Cooper Perry Primary School. Our music curriculum gives each child a high-quality music education, ensuring that they are challenged, engaged and inspired to develop a love of music, build their own self confidence and express themselves through their own individual creativity.

We aim to deliver music lessons that are fun and inspiring, engaging the children with songs, lyrics and movement. We want children to reflect on how music makes them feel and to develop their own appreciation of music through the opportunities we provide them at school. Our lessons allow the children to experience music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions.

Implementation

Here at Cooper Perry, we deliver music each week through Charanga Musical School. We follow the Model Music Curriculum scheme, which is aligned with the National Curriculum for Music and the Model Music Curriculum Guidance published by the DfE. The scheme is also fully in line with published Ofsted guidance.

Charanga provides teachers with week-by-week lessons for each year group in the school from ages 5-11. 

Charanga offers many examples of music from a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions. These are explored through a variety of musical activities which allow children to Understand Music, Listen and Respond, Learn to Sing, Play an Instrument, Improvise, Compose, and Perform. Musical knowledge and skills are taught through the scheme’s spiralised approach which provides the children with opportunities to embed their learning and build upon their understanding as they revisit music elements and concepts each year.

Through our music lessons, children are actively involved in a wide range of musical opportunities. Children develop their singing voices, use body percussion and learn to handle and play classroom instruments effectively to create and express their own and others’ music. This is through a range of whole class, group and individual activities.

All children are actively encouraged and given the opportunity to learn to play a musical instrument, from standard classroom instruments to individual instrumental lessons with the visiting peripatetic staff.

We also provide many extra-curricular opportunities for the children to take part in, including Stafford’s Gotta Sing and other local community events.  

Impact

By the time our children leave our school at the end of Key Stage 2, they will have:

• The ability to compose their own music through a process of reflecting and evaluating.
• The ability to perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression.
• The knowledge and confidence to play an instrument with ease and enjoyment.
• The ability to explore and create musical improvisations with voices and instruments.
• An awareness of how technology can be used to support music.
• A secure knowledge and understanding of a range of genres, composers and musicians.
• A sound understanding of musical language to describe and talk about music.
• A deeper understanding of how pulse, rhythm and pitch, dynamics and tempo work together and are sprinkled through music.
• A passion for music in both listening and performing.