Music
At Wolverham Primary School, we aspire to provide pupils with a dynamic, exciting and engaging music curriculum that builds skills and knowledge from year to year, allowing children to nurture their interest and love for music. Our curriculum is underpinned by Sing Up Music in order to ensure a rounded, progressive curriculum from Pre-School to Year 6.
Early Years
In the EYFS, music is experienced primarily through the Expressive Arts and Design elements of the curriculum. However, we believe music has links across the whole of the EYFS. A curriculum rooted in rhythm, spoken language and singing will develop children's language and social skills, and one which finds enjoyment in pattern will develop mathematical awareness.
Key Stage 1 and 2
Our Music curriculum for Key Stage 1 and 2 is underpinned by Sing Up Music. Sing Up covers a broad and diverse range of repertoire, approaches and musical traditions. It supports a fully-integrated approach to musical development, connecting the interrelated strands of singing, playing, improvising, composing, listening and appraising.
As with all subjects at Wolverham, even the practical ones, there is a strong focus on vocabulary acquisition, encouraging children to be able to describe what they hear and enabling them to build on their declarative knowledge and cultural literacy.
Units of work are grouped into the elements Sing and Play, Listen, Compose, with a clear progression of knowledge and skills, however, all of the interrelated strands are interleaved within the units to build a spiral progression to ensure skills are revisited and built upon.
Important information that is required to progress is identified from each lesson, ensuring all children can access lessons and make good progress.