Detail

Information

Academic year that this summary covers           2024-2025

Date of summary

1^st September 2024

Date of review

1^st September 2025

School music leads

Rokeya Sladden

School leadership team member responsible for music

Carol Brooker

Name of local music hub

Kent Music

Name of other music education organisation(s) (if partnership in place)

Music for Schools Foundation

Sounding Out (Kings School)

Simon Langton Boys Grammar

(Music projects such as Canterbury Schools Christmas concert)

Young Voices

Canterbury Cathedral Music

Canterbury Festival

This 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, a review of last years targets 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.

Curriculum music

*Throughout the whole year children ‘sing’ and learn that their voice is an instrument. Using the Model Music curriculum as a guide, we produced a song bank with skills that build progressively.

*One of our 'celebrations of the Word' is in song and these are organised termly, making links to time of year, liturgy and skills development. New songs are added to the repertoire annually.

*All 'celebrations of the Word' begin with listening to quality music which has been organised on a two - year cycle. Information about the performer or composer is on screen. This includes a wide range of musicians from the recommended lists in the Model Music curriculum and wider musical traditions in order to meet the diverse community we represent.

*Each year group plays an instrument and this is formally taught alongside notation, performance and composition in terms three and four (Pentecost and Lent). One afternoon a week is given over to Music during these terms. (2.5 hrs at KS2). 

* In years R to 1 children explore the use of untuned percussion instruments.

  Y2 – Djembe drumming (chair drumming and use of drum sticks)

  Y3-   Ocarina

  Y4-   Ukulele – tuition part funded by Music Hub.

  Y5-   Glockenspiel and identified musicians from year 4 continue with Ukulele (funded by  

           school) 

  Y6-    Recorder 

*Our curriculum was designed using the Model Music curriculum and in addition we also subscribe to ‘Charanga’ in order to support non-specialist teachers within the school.

*RE lessons and liturgy, also require musical elements especially singing and so are part and parcel of the daily life of this Catholic school.

Extra - curricular music and Musical experiences

* We run two choirs a year, a Christmas choir and a choir which runs into the summer but will in future run until our Christmas music evening (see future plans in purple)

We run a school orchestra which is open to any pupil who plays an instrument

*We work with ‘Kent Music’ who run our music hub to provide whole class tuition in Ukulele. (£838.50)

*We work with the ‘Music for Schools’ foundation to provide small group and one to one tuition for instruments. Children currently learn the saxophone, flute, clarinet and trumpet.(Parents pay for these lessons)

*In year 4 we identify pupils who show an aptitude for music and fund continuers classes in ukulele for up to nine pupils. (Funded by school – no charge to parents). We are also able to offer music tuition (Saturday mornings in term times- singing and trumpet or violin currently) in partnership with the Kings School Canterbury, through their generously subsidised ‘Sounding Out’ project. This is usually for four to six pupils and we aim to identify pupil premium and disadvantaged pupils although others are considered.  https://www.kings-partnerships.co.uk/projects/sounding-out/  This means we are able to continue high quality music tuition above our curricular offer for almost 50% of Y5 and 20% of our Y6 pupils. (Sounding out currently costs £16 a term)

*The school funds young voices for our Y6 pupils. The cost currently includes coach fare to and from the O2 (this varies annually but is in the region of £1000) and teacher workshops x2 (£180)

*We aim to have a performance event for each year group – we currently have:

 The Choir – sings at the Gulbenkian, in an annual 'Music evening' in school to friends and families and in church. The choir also sing Christmas Carols at the retirement home at the local convent.

Y6 – Sing in church, at Young voices and also a Christmas concert to residents of Chaucer House care home.

Y5 – Take priority in the Gulbenkian Christmas choir and sing at Canterbury Cathedral for the St. Nicholas Christmas service.

Y4- Sing Christmas songs at the ‘Age UK’ day centre. Attend the 'Big Summer Sing' at Canterbury Cathedral.

  3- Sing Easter songs at the 'Age UK' day centre.

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Listening to high quality live and recorded music.

 All year groups have a 'listen element' in the school music curriculum and this is mapped out so that they hear a range of music from different culturesand musical traditions during the medieval to contemporary periods. Please see our knowledge organisers in the curriculum section for further information.

   6- Artists and musicians at Young voices,. Summer music festival concert at Kings school. The children see and hear the Langton Brass band at the Christmas Gulbenkian event.

   5- Summer music festival concert at Kings school. The children see and hear the Cathedral choir and the Whitstable Scouts Brass band perform at the St. Nicholas service.

   4- Summer music festival concert at Kings school. The Langton Boys school choir sang at the Big Summer Sing.