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St Robert's Catholic Primary School

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Music

Subject Leader

Miss Jordan

Curriculum Intent

 

“Children use music to help maintain emotional and social well-being and celebrate culture and community in ways which involve entertaining or understanding themselves and making sense of the world around them. Children should develop their understanding, make musical judgements, apply their new learning, develop their aural memory, express themselves physically, emotionally and through discussion and create their own musical ideas.”  Burnard and Murphy, 2017 

At St Robert’s Catholic Primary School, we aim to engage, motivate 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. It is our intent that we make music an enjoyable, rich and stimulating learning experience and create musicians who are able to share and perform using their new knowledge.  

A balanced music curriculum enables the children to develop their musical creativity through practical and exploratory opportunities to develop as performers, song makers, composers, improvisers and listeners. Through deliberate practice, children become more fluent in their knowledge of music. As they move through school the children should also develop an increasing understanding of the history of music, learning about music across a range of genres, styles and traditions, including the works of the great composers and musicians. 

Music promotes diversity and is used to express the children’s personal, emotional, social and cultural identity.  

Music Curriculum Development: St Robert's Music Intent, implementation, impact March '20.docx

Diocese of Leeds Schools Singing Programme

Classes receive weekly singing sessions as part of the Diocese of Leeds Schools Singing Programme. These are delivered by an expert Choral Director from the Diocese, focusing on positive engagement with singing and supporting the Catholic life of the school through sacred music. The sessions offer practical and incremental coverage of areas of the music curriculum - including notation - in a two-year curriculum framework developed by the Diocese, the National Schools Singing Programme and the National Youth Choir of Scotland. Pupils also have the opportunity to join one of the Diocese’s acclaimed after-school choirs. You can find online resources that support this work on the Schools Singing Programme’s YouTube channel (www.schoolssingingprogramme.org.uk ) . Our local Diocese choir is Harrogate Catholic Youth Choir - please contact office@dioceseofleedsmusic.org.uk for more information about joining. 

St Robert's Once Again Achieved the Music Mark

St Robert’s once again achieved the Music Mark which celebrates  

members who are leaders in music education and collectively form a national network of organisations and individuals providing high-quality music education for all children and young people.

St Robert's Music Development Plan

St Robert's Music Development Plan 24-25

 The Music Development Plan is a summary of how our school delivers music education to all our pupils across three areas – curriculum music, co-curricular provision and musical experiences – and what changes we are planning in future years. This information is to help pupils and parents or carers understand what our school offers and who we work with to support our pupils’ music education.