Music

Intent

Music is a universal language. It is an opportunity for everyone to express themselves through this creative subject. Listening to music, creating, composing, performing, and experiencing the wonderful musical opportunities we have will ensure that children have a wide experience of what music can bring to every individual.

Here at Poverest we also work closely with Bromley Youth Music Trust (BYMT) and welcome specialist music teachers to work with our children on reading notation, learning to play a range of instruments, and developing their musical knowledge and skills as they move through the school.

We also showcase this learning through concerts and events that we hold in school and in the wider community.

Poverest's aim is that music is:

Enjoyable and inclusive to everyone
Broad and balanced, where children will experience listening to a range of genres, both as recordings and as live performances
Engaging and inspiring, where they are developing their knowledge of a wide range of musical genres and themes
Fun and an opportunity for the children to be active in their learning
Providing an opportunity to learn to read a new 'language' - music notation.
Celebrated as every child has the opportunity to perform for an audience, showing their creativity
Discussed, allowing every child to share their likes, preferences, and interpretations.

Implementation

Music at Poverest is delivered through a range a sources; we have the expertise of teachers from BYMT, we use the Kapow scheme for music, and have access to and use of Sing Up! This ensures we are covering all the areas of music for all the children. Within the classroom curriculum lessons, the children have experience of playing the ukulele, recorder, violin, djembe and other classroom percussion instruments.

What are these areas of music?

Listening and appraising what is heard.
Singing and creatively using our voices.
Learning to play a melodic instrument
Access to classroom instruments to focus on pulse and rhythm.
Improvision and composition.
Songwriting.
Performing to others - individually and as an ensemble.

Musical opportunities start from EYFS and progress through the years that the children are here at Poverest. Music and songs are also evident in other areas of the curriculum as they are often a tool for fact learning and engaging with new topics and themes.

Singing assemblies offer the opportunity for key stages to collaboratively perform on a regular basis, engaging with a mixture of styles and genres with these songs.

Everyone in the school takes part in performances which include our Grandparents' tea party, spring concert, Christmas nativities, and concerts. Year 6 always end their time with us with a show which includes musical opportunities.

An additional opportunity that is available at Poverest is 1:1 instrumental lessons. Reuqests for these lessons are through BYMT/or Mrs Mills at school. The BYMT link can be found at the bottom of this page.

Currently, children are learning violin, piano. guitar, clarinet and saxophone.

There is an extra curricular choir that children from Year 2 upwards can join.

Impact

Seeing the children grow is confidence when reading music, performing and singing shows how the design of our curriculum really showcases their progression of skills.

Musical vocabulary and confidence with this new 'language' is evident.

Poverest children have been successful in local auditions to perform at the prestigious Schools' Prom with an individual item.

We can measure the impact of our music curriculum through:-