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Music development plan summary
Overview
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Academic year that this summary covers | 2025-2026 |
| Date this summary was published | July 2025 |
| Date this summary will be reviewed | July 2026 |
| 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 we follow the Kapow Music Scheme 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 KS1 receive a weekly 40 minute lesson for curriculum music across all terms throughout the academic year and through Kapow 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 have short singing sessions where they sing nursery rhymes and action songs. Children are taught a song of the week and 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 in a music box.
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 and brass 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 twice 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 and then join with the rest of the school in the Spring Term.
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 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.
In the Autumn term a group of year 2 children form a choir and we take part in the annual Brackley Cluster Schools choir event at the local Secondary school, where they sing 2 songs on their own and another 2 with the massed choir. This is enthusiastically attended by our parents and is always a wonderful experience for our young children.
In the future
Curriculum Music:
We will continue to use the Kapow Music Scheme so this will provide a strong progressive structure for our curriculum teaching and will enable our new HLTA 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 planning to have termly music assemblies where each class will perform something they have learnt during their music lessons.
As subject Lead I will monitor the usage of tuned and non-tuned instruments see if they 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 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 tuned 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.
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.