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Music development plan summary
Overview
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Academic year that this summary covers | 2024-2025 |
| Date this summary was published | July 2024 |
| Date this summary will be reviewed | July 2025 |
| Name of the school music lead | Mrs Sally Watson |
| Name of local music hub | NMPAT |
Part A: Curriculum music
Waynflete Infants’ School’s music curriculum is informed by the National Curriculum and from September 2024 we will be following the Kapow Music Scheme(having previously been using Getset4Music) which has been designed ‘to help children to feel that they are musical and develop a life-long love of music’. Kapow uses a spiral curriculum model where previous skills and knowledge are returned to and built upon during the course of their primary education.
All children in EYFS and KS1 receive a weekly music lesson and in KS1 children attend a weekly school singing assembly. 40 minutes are allocated for curriculum music across all terms throughout the academic year and children are taught to sing properly, listen to a range of music, explore the elements of pitch, rhythm, pulse and tempo and to play, compose and improvise music on chime bars, as well as a variety of untuned instruments. In EYFS the children have a 20 minute weekly curriculum lesson and also have short singing sessions where they sing nursery rhymes and action songs. Songs are used to encourage the children to learn school routines such as tidying up, lining up and going home at the end of the day. Outdoor provision gives them access to instruments on a music wall.
Opportunities are provided in all music lessons for pupils to learn how to sing or play a tuned or untuned percussion during lesson time, and to develop these skills throughout their time at Waynflete. This is supported by the weekly singing assembly where class teachers teach the songs that are sung during school assemblies Waynflete has a long-standing partnership with NMPAT (Northamptonshire Music and Performing Arts Trust) who deliver weekly string and brass instrument lessons to children in Years 1 and 2.
Part B: Co-curricular music
All our children are offered the opportunity to lean the violin, cello and cornet with small group weekly lessons delivered by NMPAT. The string children are given the experience of performing to the wider school and their parents during each school year. Pupils wishing to lean and who receive Pupil Premium funding are offered funded tuition. Children receiving lessons from NMPAT are also offered the opportunity to join the Brackley and Cheney Music and Arts Centre.
The majority of our children move on to Brackley Junior School where they will continue to be supported by NMAT and are offered a wider range of peripatetic instrumental lessons.
Part C: Musical experiences
On a weekly basis the KS1 children have the opportunity to take part in a singing assembly where class teachers work on a rota teaching them the songs that are sung in assemblies. EYFS children learn the songs with their class teacher in their classrooms.
Children also learn the songs to perform to their family members during our annual KS1 and EYFS Christmas performances, which have a strong singing focus, alongside dancing and choral poetry speaking. All the children also take part in the annual year group Harvest Assemblies to their parents where they sing a variety of Autumn themed songs. The children enjoy singing some Christmas favourites with their parents at our Christmas bazaar.
Over the past few years we have also learnt songs to perform at events such as The Queen’s &0th Jubilee, the King’s Coronation and in 2024 at our first Summer Festival. The local training bass band also performed at this, with one of our year 2 children being their youngest member playing her cornet.
In the future
Curriculum Music:
We will be starting to use the Kapow Music Scheme so are hoping that this will provide a strong progressive structure for our curriculum teaching and will enable our non-specialist classroom teachers to be able to feel confident about their music teaching. We will work to increase our lesson time over the year, hopefully building up to one hour a week by the end of year 2.
We are going to have termly music assemblies where each class will perform something they have learnt during their music lessons.
We have recently been able to purchase a large quantity of untuned percussion instruments, which will be redistributed across the school to enable to teaching of the curriculum. As subject Lead I will monitor their usage and see if the instruments we have match the requirements of Kapow, and order any that we do not have.
We will work to increase the continuous and outdoor provision in EYFS and to develop a music and performance area with access to a range of percussion instruments and lyrics for school songs and nursey rhymes that the children are familiar with.
Co-Curricular Music:
We are planning to set up a choir for our children, and to provide more opportunities for the children to participate in community events. This will be started by being part of a massed choir in the Brackley School’s Concert in October for all the schools in our Cluster, held at the Secondary School. This event used to be held annually but stopped due to Covid, so we are hoping that this will be the start of reinstating this very popular musical event.
We will be investigating the possibility of having a music club for Year 2 after school, where the children will be able to learn the recorder and use other tunes and untuned musical instruments.
We will monitor the number of children taking up instrumental lessons and work to increase this number by the peripatetic teachers having assemblies to promote their instruments.
Musical Experiences:
To enable our children to experience more live music, we will be arranging visits from the NMPAT music ensembles and also from the local secondary school music groups. We are fortunate that one of our teacher’s sons is a very talented percussionist, and he will be holding some percussion workshops for all of our children to experience the excitement of drumming.
As music Lead I will make contact with our local Music Hub and investigate further support and opportunities they can provide.
Further information (optional)
The Department for Education publishes a guide for parents and young people on how they can get involved in music in and out of school, and where they can go to for support beyond the school.
Our local music hub has a local plan for music education in place from September 2024 that will include useful information.
