Music Long Term Curriculum Plan

Music development plan summary

Overview

Detail	Information
Academic year that this summary covers	2024-2025
Date this summary was published	September 2024
Date this summary will be reviewed	January 2025
Name of the school music lead	Imogen Tinsley
Name of school leadership team member with responsibility for music (if different)
Name of local music hub	Hampshire Music Service
Name of other music education organisation(s) (if partnership in place)

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 – 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.

Part A: Curriculum music

This is about what we teach in lesson time, how much time is spent teaching music and any music qualifications or awards that pupils can achieve.

At Riders Federation of Infant and Junior Schools, we ensure children are taught music for at least one 50 minute session a week. Children are given the opportunity to experience and compose a range of different genres of music, through the use of body percussion, woodwind instruments, and a variety of drums and percussion instruments. Children enjoy learning and singing songs during assembly time once a week. Children in the Junior school benefit from weekly 1 hourly sessions with Hampshire Music Services, enjoying developing their singing skills, learning to rap and use technology to produce music, and, in Year 4, rehearsing and performing a ‘Power of Music’ concert alongside children from local schools. On top of this, children are offered the chance to join singing club and choir during lunchtimes and afterschool.

Part B: Co-curricular music

This is about opportunities for pupils to sing and play music, outside of lesson time, including choirs, ensembles and bands, and how pupils can make progress in music beyond the core curriculum.

The children at Riders benefit from having weekly visits from Hampshire Music Service during their time in the Junior school. In Year 4, children experience sessions on Vocals and Music Technology, Year 5 focus on Rap and Literacy, and Year 6 complete a Rock 2 The Beat Transition project. At the end of the year, children invite parents to watch them perform.

In previous years, children have performed in the Young Voices concert.

Part C: Musical experiences

This is about all the other musical events and opportunities that we organise, such as singing in assembly, concerts and shows, and trips to professional concerts.

Musical experiences on offer at Riders Federation of Infant and Junior Schools:

· Weekly singing assemblies

· School choir

· Pupils all sing at celebration events such as leaver’s assemblies

· The Power of Music concert performed in auditorium to Year 4 parents

· Choir performance for parents/carers

· Year 6 ‘Robin Hood’ musical performance

· EYFS/KS1 Christmas nativities

In the future

This is about what the school is planning for subsequent years.

In future years, our Music Development Plan aims to achieve the following:

· Introduction of a wider range of instruments on offer for small group or individual lessons.

· Make more use of our music room and resources/instruments.

· Take part in more community events/festivals that include showcasing the talents of music and singing

· School choir to take leading roles in school services for harvest, remembrance, Christmas and Easter.

Further information (optional)

Use this space to provide any further information about your school’s music development plan, including links to your local music hub partners, other local music education organisations and contacts.

The Department for Education publishes a guide for parents and young people on how they can get involved in music in and out of school, and where they can go to for support beyond the school.

Your local music hub should also have a local plan for music education in place from September 2024 that should include useful information.

If your school is part of a multi-academy trust with a trust-wide music development plan, you may also want to include a link to any published information on this plan.

The Federation of Riders Infant and Junior Schools