Music Intent, Implementation and Impact

Intent

To deliver a curriculum which:

• Instils a love of music and children's belief in their own ability to discuss, make and perform music.
• develops a curiosity for the subject, as well as an understanding and acceptance of all types of music. Children can appreciate how music has a value in the community they belong to and to grow their cultural capital.
• Values the importance of music in the curriculum to support how children can Become more confident in elements of music that can be transferred to all the child's learning, like performance, confidence, working alongside others and listening skills
• Values creative and immersive leaning opportunities where musicians visit school and make links with other music providers.

Implementation

Teaching and Learning, Content and Sequence

• Teachers teach from the Kapow scheme of learning and we are working at embedding this further into the curriculum.
• Children are taught knowledge and skills that are at least in line with national expectations and the music mark curriculum.
• The Wider Curriculum Map disseminates knowledge and skills across Years 1 to 6: teachers are equally accountable for the content, progress and attainment of children and their development of knowledge and skills.
• The music progression document plots out the progression of skills and knowledge in each area of music to ensure progression across the school from EYFS to Y6.
• The Learning Journey model is used to sequence the learning in a given theme and work towards a musical outcome that includes performance.
• Children sing in assemblies. 
• Additional opportunities for singing are offered in choir. They perform in the community during the run up to Christmas.

Leadership, Assessment and Feedback

• Music is led by a class based subject leader following the three year development plan.
• Kapow will become more imbedded into the curriculum.
• Assessment of music is based on the progression document and teacher assessment
• We ensure regular assessment and monitoring of explicit skills.  Pre and post assessments are completed for each unit.

Impact

• Pupil voice indicates that music is used in lessons like writing and art
• Music is being taught in each year group at regular times.
• Children enjoy structured singing assemblies
• We have an established school choir who sing in the community.  This enables performances in the community to showcase taught skills.