Music
Music is a joyful and enriching part of our curriculum, giving every child the chance to explore sound, develop creativity, and grow in confidence. Our approach follows the National Curriculum and is shaped by the Department for Education’s Model Music Curriculum (MMC), ensuring a broad, ambitious, and well‑sequenced musical journey from EYFS to Year 6. The MMC states,
“Music is all around us. It is the soundtrack to our lives. Music connects us through people and places in our ever-changing world. It is creative, collaborative, celebratory and challenging.”
Children take part in singing, listening, composing, and performing, building key skills such as pulse, rhythm, pitch, and notation. They experience a wide range of musical styles and traditions, helping them develop both technical understanding and cultural awareness.
The children benefit from many opportunities to listen to and explore music through music assemblies. There are many opportunities to perform throughout the year at our concerts, assemblies and productions.
In Key Stage 2, music is taught by specialist staff, providing pupils with expert guidance, high‑quality instruction, and inspiring opportunities to develop their musicianship. All pupils benefit from the opportunity to learn instruments in a class setting.
This specialist teaching supports progression in instrumental skills, ensemble work, and musical understanding.
Alongside curriculum lessons, children also have the opportunity to sign up for individual or small‑group music tuition, delivered by visiting peripatetic teachers. These lessons allow pupils to learn an instrument in greater depth and develop their skills further.
Useful further information is available:
- DfE The power of music to change lives: a national plan for music education
- The power of music to change lives: case studies
- National Curriculum in England: music programmes of study
What Music Brings to Our Schools
- A rich, progressive curriculum, shaped by national guidance and high‑quality resources
- Regular opportunities to sing, play, compose, and perform
- Specialist teaching in Key Stage 2, ensuring depth and expertise
- Exposure to diverse musical genres, from classical and folk to world and contemporary music
- Optional instrumental tuition, supporting children who want to learn an instrument
- Confidence, creativity, and teamwork, developed through shared musical experiences
Music at our school is inclusive, inspiring, and full of energy. It helps children express themselves, work together, and discover the joy of music as a universal language.
Please see below The Peak Federation Music Policy.
