Music & Performing Arts

curriculum intent statement

At Loseley Fields Primary our main aim is that children leave school with a wide range of rich and happy memories in music, formed through interesting and exciting experiences. These intend to reflect the world around them but at the same time give them access to musical styles throughout history. We aim to use music to celebrate equality and diversity across the primary setting. 

Our music curriculum will engage and inspire pupils of all abilities to develop a love of music and their talents as musicians, which will increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement. 

Children will meet the National Curriculum expectations in music through well planned lessons using guidance from Model Music Curriculum and Charanga to support teaching and learning. 

At Loseley Fields Primary, children will gain a firm understanding of music through listening and appraising, singing, playing, evaluating, analysing and composing. 

We will ensure every child has the opportunity to learn to play a variety of musical instruments during their time at Loseley Fields. In Years 1 and 2, the children receive whole class recorder lessons, in Years 3 and 4 children learn to play the glockenspiel and then in Year 5 and 6 children move onto playing the ukulele. In doing so, they understand how different instruments create music, develop the skills of reading music and also learn how to work together for performances, thinking about the different dimensions of music as they do so. 

At Loseley Fields we place a great importance on children having the opportunities to perform to the whole school and wider community. In Early Years, Year 1 and Year 2 children perform a nativity to the school and parents, Years 3 and 4 perform their own version of an Opera and Years 5 and 6 produce a musical at the end of the school year. 

Opportunities for children to experience music learning outside of the classroom is planned across the school. Music clubs such as Choir, small group instrumental tuition through Surrey Arts and Rock Steady band practise encourage children to work together to learn new skills and perform to others. Children also have the opportunity to attend performances in the wider community, such as carol singing for day care centres and participating in a 6000 strong choir during the annual Young Voices Concerts at the O2 London. Other opportunities might be watching musicians perform, professional musicians visiting the school to work with pupils, performances from staff or pupils who are musicians and the whole school taking part in World Music Day.

assessment in music & performing arts

Assessment for learning is threaded through all our music teaching using our feedback policy. We use strategies such as Think, Pair, Share and Cold Calling to assess understanding. We also use flexible groupings within the lesson to target children who may have difficulty understanding a particular concept or skills.

At the end of each unit, we do an ‘exit quiz’ to assess how well they have understood the main concepts of the lessons and the skills they have developed over the course of the unit. The teachers then use this information to adjust future planning if necessary to ensure greater understanding. It is also used to inform teacher judgements against the National Curriculum objectives.