Music Festival 2023 – Highly Commended!
Music education nurtures the whole child. The learning experience encompasses exploration, experimentation, inspiration, challenge, evaluation, provocation, imagination and liberation. This is intrinsically motivating and leads to high levels of engagement and allows the development of collaborative and interpersonal skills. Cultural and historical understanding is reinforced and supports the development of responsible and ethical citizens.
Our Music education nurtures the whole child. The learning experience encompasses exploration, experimentation, inspiration, challenge, evaluation, provocation, imagination and liberation. This is intrinsically motivating and leads to high levels of engagement and allows the development of collaborative and interpersonal skills. Cultural and historical understanding is reinforced and supports the development of responsible and ethical citizens. There is a clear plan for progression through high quality teaching and assessment, taught through the areas of performing, composition, playing, games, listening and appraising, singing and improvisation. Our music teaching is fully inclusive and all children will be fully challenged, gaps will be identified and barriers to learning will be lifted.
Weekly music lessons in each class will be led by a qualified teacher. Music is part of everyday school life and enjoyed across the curriculum. We use Charanga as the basis for our planning, teaching and assessment. Learning is enhanced through support from music specialists including the Norfolk Music Hub and vocal animateurs. Singing is an important part of our daily Collective Worship and our choir regularly perform to the local community and in county competitions and productions. We also offer peripatetic music lessons. Recorders and tuned and untuned percussion instruments are taught alongside composition and improvisation. All lessons begin with time to listen, reflect and appraise a piece of music which may come from any style or age of music. We hold regular concerts which allow children to learn and enjoy the art of performance.
Music is valued throughout our school and clearly evident as a joyous and exciting activity. Our children enjoy performing to each other, our community and beyond and the singing during Collective Worship is happy, enthusiastic and of a high quality. We use Charanga to support our planning and assessment across the school so formative and summative assessment analysis can be used to ensure good or better progression. Children in Reception are assessed against the EYFS framework. We support children who wish to have further instrument teaching and we celebrate musical achievements together.
