Music
Music lessons at Worth Valley Primary School are engaging and inspiring. Children are provided with high-quality music sessions which increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement. Our exciting music programme ensures that children enjoy a range of activities, including singing, playing instruments, evaluating, analysing and composing music. This is a skills-based, cyclical curriculum which allows continuity from EYFS through to Year 6. All children experience music from across a wide variety of historical periods, styles, traditions and musical genres.
The children progressively build up their knowledge of notation and ability to read music. Each class has access to percussion instruments to develop their sense of rhythm and accompany their singing.
As a school, we thoroughly enjoy singing. We have a weekly singing assembly where everyone comes together, and we celebrate significant events throughout the year. We use themes to enhance our whole-school singing, such as Remembrance, Christmas, Easter, Halloween and musicals. Weekly lessons encourage children to practise different breathing exercises, learn new songs and understand the importance of music. We sing at St John’s Church and visit Staveley Court Nursing Home to sing for the residents.
Music has an enormous impact on wellbeing. Through our music provision, we strive to give children a sense of achievement which improves their self-confidence, with group performances enhancing interaction with and awareness of others.
Music also develops an understanding of culture and history, both in relation to individual pupils and cultures from across the world. Children enjoy music as listeners, creators and performers, which will hopefully spark a love of music that will last a lifetime.
Music development plan summary
Year 5 blues unit
