INTENT

We use the Kapow Primary Music Scheme from F2 to Year 6. The intention of the Kapow Primary music scheme is to help children to feel that they are musical and to develop a life-long love of music. We focus on developing the skills, knowledge and understanding that children need in order to become confident performers, composers and listeners. Our curriculum introduces children to music from all around the world and across generations, teaching children to respect and appreciate the music of all traditions and communities.

Children will develop the musical skills of singing, playing tuned and untuned instruments, improvising and composing music, and listening and responding to music. They will develop an understanding of the history and cultural context of the music that they listen to and learn how music can be written down. Through music, our curriculum helps children develop transferable skills such as team-working, leadership, creative thinking, problem-solving, decision-making, and presentation and performance skills. These skills are vital to children’s development as learners and have a wider application in their general lives outside and beyond school.

Kapow Primary’s Music scheme of work enables pupils to meet the end of key stage attainment targets outlined in the national curriculum and the aims of the scheme align with the national curriculum.

Music is taught in EYFS through Monster Phonics (F1), Kapow (F2), daily routines and through continuous provision.

IMPLEMENTATION

Lessons are taught following the Kapow Scheme from F2 to Year 6. Each five-lesson unit combines the strands of: performing, listening, composing, the history of music and the inter-related dimensions of music to capture pupils’ imagination and encourage them to explore music enthusiastically.

The Kapow Primary scheme follows the spiral curriculum model where previous skills and knowledge are returned to and built upon. Children progress in terms of tackling more complex tasks and doing more simple tasks better, as well as developing understanding and knowledge of the history of music, staff, and other musical notations as well was the interrelated dimensions of music and more.

In each lesson, pupils will actively participate in musical activities drawn from a range of styles and traditions, developing their musical skills and their understanding of how music works. Lessons incorporate a range of teaching strategies from independent tasks, paired and group work as well as improvisation and teacher-led performances. Lessons are ‘hands-on’ and incorporate movement and dance elements, as well as making cross curricular links with other areas of learning.

Tuition

We have several different tuition opportunities available for children to sign up for within school. They can have weekly guitar lessons with Create Music, or they can become part of their own rock band by either singing or playing the guitar, keyboards or drums with Rocksteady.

 

Impact

The children this year in Years 3 and 4, received expert teaching within a class ensemble group through Inspire Muisc. This has allowed the children to learn and develop skills in playing an tuned instrument – the toot.

It follows the Model Music Curriculum and again supplements the teaching of music through Kapow, allowing the children to have a deeper understanding of musical vocabulary, terms and teamwork and offers the opportunity for performance. This is going to continue in the 2026-2027 academic year.

Throughout the year, children are offered the opportunity to watch and participate in live music, through performing as part of class and singing assemblies, through Create Music and RockSteady. We achieved the status of being a ‘Music Mark’ school for our commitment to providing high quality music education for children and young people in 2024-2025, and this has opened additional opportunities for the children to participate, listen to and appreciate a variety of genres of music across the year.

Tuition

Within school we also have a variety of different opportunities available for children to sign up and learn an instrument in greater depth, on a 1-2-1 or small group ensemble basis. We currently do this through Create music who specialise in the guitar and RockSteady who specialise in different instruments, playing together within a band.

This is continuing into the next academic year. This also allows the children the opportunity to perform in front of parents, carers, the school and their peers and develops relationship building in alignment with developing their musciality. 

 

Extra-Curricular Opportunities

 

Children are able to participate in clubs taking place after school which link to music in a variety of ways. The clubs this acadmeic year have included KS2 Choir and Music & Movement in F2.

The KS2 Choir each year, have an opportunity to participate in a collective performances as part of the Transform Trust Choir at the Albert Hall in Nottingham and giving back to the local community by visiting residential homes.

 

Music in the EYFS - Expressive Arts and Design – Being Imaginative and Expressive

The children experience music as specific part of their curriculum. Music and instruments are around the children in the outside areas and there are always opportunities for the children to perforem creatively on their outside stages!

Music is a foundation block in Nursery’ s Monster Phonics Phase 1, as the children experience and discover environmental, vocal and instrumental sounds, rhythm and rhyme and body percussion. These skills can them be used in the enviroment around them, whilst instruments are also used in telling stories and singing nursery rhymes.