Music

John Lennon's quote on songwriting

‘There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.’

Our Intent: 

At Gossey, we provide a high quality music education which enables children to develop a love of music whilst increasing self-confidence, creativity and a sense of achievement. Our aim is to  inspire pupils to develop a love of music and nurture their talent as musicians. Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity. A high quality music education should engage and inspire pupils to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians, and so increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement. As pupils progress, they should develop a critical engagement with music, allowing them to compose, and to listen with discrimination to the best in the musical canon.

Through our scheme (Charanga Musical School) and topic work, pupils have the opportunity to perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions.  The scheme introduces them to the best of what has been created musically,  providing a diverse range of artists and genres for the children to both be inspired by and to learn from. They learn to sing and to use their voices, to create and compose music on their own and with others.

In KS1, the children enjoy singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes. They have the opportunity to play both tuned and percussion instruments which they use to create, select and combine sounds. They also listen and move to a wide range of music.

Children in KS2 build on the skills acquired in KS1 so that, by the end of year 6, they sing and play with increasing control and self-confidence. They deepen their understanding of music in the world and the significance of music through history. Children are encouraged to explore their own musical preferences and discuss these with confidence.

Soundtots is a musical intervention to help children reach a progressive level of development during their time in EYFS, supporting children’s language development, memory, listening and attention skills. Music builds pupils’ confidence and supports wellbeing. Music Service EY specialist teachers will foster and model the three ‘characteristics of effective learning’ so that children learn to explore, to be engaged and motivated to develop their thinking skills by making links in their learning through music. Soundtots is an ideal platform to broaden the curriculum and give opportunities to strengthen and apply the prime areas of learning through music making and movement.

All children take part in singing lessons in assemblies which contribute to our school, Christmas and Easter celebrations. Our Christmas and end of year performances provides an opportunity for the children to share their work in music with parents, governors and other friends of the school.

At Gossey Lane we believe it is important for children to appreciate a range of styles of music. To achieve this aim, we expose the children to a Composer of the Week.
This covers a range of culturally diverse artists from history to present day. 

Gossey Lane is now working in collaboration with the Music service to develop whole school singing and a Choir. As well as supporting literacy and numeracy and increasing brain activity, singing also helps improve children’s skills in less obvious ways, including team-working, creative-thinking, organisational abilities, self-esteem and self-discipline. 

Progression of Knowledge-and-skills EYFS to Year 6

Please also see our topic overview for the music curriculum below: 

Please click here to view our Music Gallery