Music
The subject leader for Music is Miss Hardman.
Intent
At Grange Primary, our music curriculum is designed to be engaging, creative, and inclusive, ensuring every child develops a love for music.
We aim to provide opportunities for pupils to listen, appraise, perform, and compose across a wide range of genres and traditions.
Children experience a progression of skills using varied instruments—from percussion and glockenspiels to ukuleles—throughout their primary years.
Our intent reflects the National Curriculum aims, ensuring pupils:
Play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using voices and instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control, and expression.
Improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the interrelated dimensions of music.
Listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory.
Use and understand staff and other musical notations.
Appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music from different traditions and great composers.
Develop an understanding of the history of music.
In EYFS, music is integral to developing imagination, creativity, and cultural awareness. Children engage regularly with songs, rhymes, and musical play, supporting language development and self-expression.
Implementation
We deliver music through a structured, progressive approach using Charanga Musical School and Musical Futures resources.
Lessons follow a consistent sequence: Listen and Appraise, Musical Activities (pulse, rhythm, pitch), Singing and Voice, Playing Instruments, Improvisation and Composition, Perform and Share.
Curriculum Overview Highlights (2025–26): EYFS: Nursery rhymes and percussion; KS1: Hip Hop, Blues, Latin, Rock, Reggae; Lower KS2: R&B, World Music, Disco, Pop; Upper KS2: Ukulele mastery with Musical Futures.
Performance is central: each unit culminates in a class or whole-school performance, fostering confidence and musicality.
Pupils also engage with the Musician of the Month initiative, broadening exposure to diverse styles and composers.
We integrate the Model Music Curriculum (MMC) by emphasising Listening, Composing, Performing.
Impact
We measure impact through summative assessments, teacher observations, pupil voice interviews, end-of-unit performances, and termly subject leader reports.
Our approach ensures pupils leave Grange Primary with strong musical skills, cultural appreciation, and confidence in creative expression.
The full programme of study is available by following the link to the DfE website below:
We use the Lancashire resource 'Charanga' as the basis for our scheme of work. Through this scheme we develop our musical skills using a range of instruments, such as shakers and other non-tuned instruments, glockenspiels and ukuleles. Children have the opportunity to demonstrate their progress using these instruments to the rest of the school in music assemblies at the end of a unit.
Here is a song we enjoy singing together. It is taken from the film Zootropolis and is about keeping trying and never giving up. Please feel free to have a go at singing it at home. The children will show you how it's done!