Music
Beaufort Primary School strives to inspire children to cultivate a love of music and develop their skills as musicians.
At Beaufort Primary, we use Kapow to ensure our music curriculum...
1-is designed to focus on the main musical concepts that pupils need to learn and remember. It is also true to the national curriculum for both Key Stages 1 and 2 and the Early Years Framework.
2-ensures full coverage of the National Curriculum is met.
3-has a high focus on listening, performing and developing both musical language (see vocabulary progression document below) and PSHE skills.
4-is designed to enhance long term memory through revisited concepts.
5- is progressive is knowledge and skills from Reception - Year 6 (see progression document below)
6- is underpinned by our British values, equalities, school ‘BRAVE’ ethos and the need to build cultural capital for all our pupils.
Key principles underpinning our music curriculum:
1-Children knowing and remembering key knowledge.
2-Making explicit links and connections between units and real-life experiences.
3-Having a resource rich environment, including regular use of tuned and untuned instruments.
4-Children having an enthusiastic attitude towards music lessons and a confidence to perform.
Key musical vocabulary is identified on every year group’s unit knowledge organisers (see all year group’s KO below) and is referred to regularly within lessons.
In addition to Kapow, we also have provision for external support from the Derbyshire Music Hub who provide classroom instrumental learning, with Brass lessons in Year 3. These are lessons that are taught by specialists and observed by our staff, who then gain knowledge to support their class. We also have children in years 5 and 6 who have chosen to continue Brass lessons and are working towards accredited music certificates. Again, these small group lessons are delivered by a specialist teacher.
For more information about music at Beaufort, please see our 2024/25 music development plan below.
Music Documents:
Year 1/2 Music Year 3/4 Music Year 5/6 Music
School Music Development Plan Summary 2024-2025
Music Mark Schools Certificate 2022-2023.pdf
Intent, Implementation, Impact Statements
For further information, please see below our Music Subject Leader 3 I's Statement:
