Music is led by Mrs Batey.
A rich and diverse music education is fundamental to helping unlock a child’s creative potential. At Heronshaw school it is our intention to support children to develop a life-long love of music and a desire to be musicians. We believe that music inspires and drives our children into becoming holistic, well-rounded individuals. Our music curriculum provides children with a broad range of musical experiences, creating a foundation to explore their talents and passions.
Music has a significant impact on spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. Creating, performing or listening to music can sometimes be a moving and spiritual experience. Our children are given many opportunities to encounter music from different cultures and religions, making links to celebrations and festivals, which helps to develop acceptance and celebration of other cultures and societies. Music teaching supports children’s moral development by showing that different opinions need to be respected and valued; this may be personal likes and dislikes, but also to do with the history or ways of production of music. In exposing children to the power of collaborative working, when undertaking musical performance arts, social development is built. Music is accessed throughout the day at school; from coming into school in the morning, in the hall during lunch time, to school assemblies and after school clubs. Music allows children to grow and develop their social skills, by communicating their shared experiences and discussing the range of emotions that music can evoke. We strive to ensure that music is an inherently cultural and social experience at Heronshaw School. Through theatre visits, extracurricular music groups and activities our children have the opportunity to deepen their cultural development.
At Heronshaw school, we use the Music Express (Collins) scheme of work. The scheme takes a complete and holistic approach to music, in which the individual strands are linked together to create engaging and enriching learning experiences. The strands are as follows:
- Singing
- Playing instruments
- Improvising/exploring
- Composing
- Listening
- Appraising
Our music scheme of work covers all of the National Curriculum attainment targets and children take part in a weekly focussed music lesson. There is a clear progression of skills taught within each year group and these skills develop year on year to ensure attainment targets are met by the end of each key stage. Music Express follows a spiral curriculum model where previous skills and knowledge are returned to and built upon.
In ensuring we have provided our children with a rich and full music curriculum we ensure that our pupils will have achieved a wide range of musical experiences by the time they leave Heronshaw School and have developed their musical understanding and a love of music to allow them to continue their musical journey in the future.
Below you will find links to key documents.
The progression grid shows the key knowledge and skills that are taught from Foundation Stage to the end of Key Stage 1. Our progression grids also highlight the next steps in the educational journey, therefore include Year 3 expectations.
How do I know what my child is being taught at Heronshaw?
We deliver curriculum information meetings for parents. Presentation slideshows are saved under the Year Group drop down menus.
In addition to this, each year group produces an Overview of Learning that is also saved under Year Groups.
Every subject under the Curriculum tab has detailed Progression Grids which show the full curriculum that Heronshaw has designed for our pupils.
If parents have any questions and would like to know more then we welcome this. Please speak to a member of the team.