Music

Foster a love and joy of music through listening and exploring high quality examples.
Provide high quality teaching of singing so children can create and be composers of music.
Provide opportunities to perform, listen to, review, and evaluate music.
Understand and explore how music is created, produced, and communicated.
Gain a firm understanding of music through listening, singing, playing, evaluating, analysing, and composing across a variety of historical periods, styles, traditions and musical genres.
Children to develop a curiosity and appreciation of music, be involved in musical activities and be able to understand and use the technical language associated with the subject.

Music in Key Stage 2 is taught by a music specialist from Wigan Music Service and in Key Stage 1 it is delivered by Wigan Wider Opportunities. In the Early Years it is taught by the class teachers daily and through continuous provision.
Children are taught to describe key characteristics as well as understand and use technical terminology and specialist vocabulary.
Whilst gathering for whole school assemblies, children listen to a wide range of genres of music – introducing them to classical music and different composers and their work and enabling them to identify and appreciate different styles and genres.
Children undertake independent work, and can work in groups, perform as a class and discuss their work with their peers.
Our choir meets once a week during lunch to rehearse and has extremely committed members.
Opportunities for children to learn an instrument in school as an extra-curricular activity.

Assessment through pupil voice, observations, performances to parents and school family and ongoing formative self/peer/teacher assessment.
At the end of each academic school year children are assessed against age related expectations and this is recorded in a learning log. This is then reported to parents.
Children to have a love of music and good technical knowledge to support this.
Children achieving age related expectations in music at the end of their cohort year.
Upskilled teachers through good quality CPD as they take part in the lessons provided by Wigan Wide Opportunities.
We have a significant number of children who are having private lessons to be taught how to play an instrument ranging from guitar, violin, recorder to drums!
Our school choir is a big presence in our school community and perform whenever possible.