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At Heybridge, our aim is to enable and inspire every child to become a musician; to actively engage with fun and diverse musical experiences. We believe that being a musician requires the self-confidence to be creative and take risks. Children build their knowledge and understanding of the elements of music and develop proficiency, as they nurture their love of and an appreciation of music, and achieve personal musical success.

The National Curriculum states that: “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 cannon.” Therefore, the foundations of the TKAT music curriculum are underpinned by the technical, constructive and expressive pillars of musicianship, taught through the key concepts of pulse, rhythm, pitch, structure and notation. Children progressively build their understanding of these concepts in order to listen, compose and perform with growing precision and proficiency. Through this, children will make more music, think more musically and become more musical.

The TKAT music curriculum is designed on the principle of a spiralised curriculum, allowing space for exposure, experience and preparation; direct teaching of substantive musical knowledge; mindful practice; and meaningful application as children move their understanding from their conscious to unconscious mind. This, in turn, develops the qualities and characteristics of a rounded musician, ready to continue their musical journey into the next phase of their learning.

At Heybridge, we also provide instrumental lessons where children can learn a range of instruments. In class, all children will learn the recorder in Year 3/ 4 and will learn the glockenspiel in Year 5 / 6.

Singing is integrated through many subjects in our school. We have weekly singing lessons where we learn about the joy of singing as a group. We also use these sessions to prepare for our KS1 nativity, harvest, carols by candlelight and our Year 6 end of the year show. 

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Music development plan summary: Heybridge Primary School

Music curriculum is blocked throughout the year in years 1 and 2. This equates to 18 hours of discrete lessons. In addition to this we have music appreciation 3 times a week in assembly, singing assemblies for 30 minutes every week and 3 musical events a year.

At Heybridge we have:

  • Access to lessons across a range of instruments, and voice 
  • Our music curriculum uses untuned instruments, recorders in Year 3 and 4 and Glockenspiels in Year 5 and 6. 
  • Our own choir who perform 2 main concerts a year and within the community 
  • We have a Rock Steady group and we will have a ukulele group towards the end of the year. 
  • Space for rehearsals and individual practice – We have an instrumental room for 1:1 lessons through Essex Music Services.  
  • 5 school performances  
  • Harvest assembly
  • Carols by candlelight 
  • KS1 performance in Autumn
  • Strictly come dancing in Spring
  • Year â…š production in Summer

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