Focus

Our focus is to provide a high-quality music education which should engage and inspire pupils to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians, and so increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement. Please find our Futura music curriculum within this document here.

Aims

The national curriculum for music aims to ensure that all pupils:

• perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions, including the works of the great composers and musicians
• learn to sing and to use their voices, to create and compose music on their own and with others, have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument, use technology appropriately and have the opportunity to progress to the next level of musical excellence
• understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated, including through the inter-related dimensions: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations.

We are very well equipped for music resources and all children are encouraged to participate and extend their musical development using pitched and unpitched instruments. Children explore rhythms, melodies, pitch, dynamics and timbre, developing teamwork, independence and self-confidence.

Instrumental lessons are taught by the West of England Music Alliance, offering violin, cello, guitar, flute, clarinet, saxophone, brass, voice, piano, percussion and other instruments. If your child is interested in Music Lessons, please follow this link to apply for music lessons. We also offer descant recorder tuition from Year Two upwards. 

Please find the current Music timetable here

All children are part of our school choir and we have a strong tradition of musical performances throughout the year. Key Stage One organise a Christmas Nativity and a Summer Concert. The Key Stage Two Christmas musical productions are always a highlight of the season. Harvest Festivals, Easter and Christingle Services are memorable celebrations throughout the year.

There are also three choirs for the children to join; the Key Stage 1 choir run by Mr George (Years 1 and 2), the Lower Key Stage 2 choir run by Miss Walker (Years 3 and 4) and the Upper Key Stage 2 choir (Years 5 and 6) run by Miss Benton. Links are posted below for each of the choir’s sign-up sheets.

Year 1/2 Choir Sign-Up sheet – Terms 5 and 6, 2026 – Fill in form

Year 3/4 Choir sign up 2025-2026 – Fill in form

We always welcome music and drama groups to enhance the musical learning and diversity of the curriculum for both staff and pupils.

The Music Mark school award comes in recognition of the value we place on music education as part of a broad and balanced curriculum.

When teaching music lessons, we follow the Sing Up Scheme, an excellent resource that covers all the National Curriculum requirements. Each year group has its own plan to follow and a range of musical genres are included. 

Please follow this link for the PDF document of the unit overviews and musical progression of the Sing Up Scheme.

Music Development Plan

Our Music Development Plan can be found here.