Music development plan summary: Scholes (Holmfirth) J and I School
Overview
Detail Information
Academic year that this summary covers 2024-25
Date this summary was published Nov 2024
Date this summary will be reviewed Sept 2025
Name of the school music lead Emily Knight
Name of school leadership team member with responsibility for music (if different) Lisa Pugh
Name of local music hub Musica Kirklees
Name of other music education organisation(s) (if partnership in place) Rock Steady
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 Scholes (Holmfirth) J and I School we follow the Kapow music scheme from Reception through to Year 6 with the intention that children feel musical and develop a life-long love of music. All classes are taught music weekly. Additional opportunities are offered throughout the EYFS curriculum and provision, whole school assemblies and various performance opportunities throughout the year for different year groups.
Through the use of Kapow, we focus on developing the skills, knowledge and understanding that children need in order to become confident performers, composers, and listeners. In lessons, children are introduced to music from all around the world and across generations, teaching children to respect and appreciate the music of all traditions and communities. Children will develop the musical skills of singing, playing tuned and untuned instruments, improvising and composing music, and listening and responding to music. They will develop an understanding of the history and cultural context of the music that they listen to and learn how music can be written down.
Through music, our curriculum helps children develop transferable skills such as teamworking, leadership, creative thinking, problem-solving, decision-making, and presentation and performance skills. These skills are vital to children’s development as learners and have a wider application in their general lives outside and beyond school. Lessons are adapted and personalised in order to meet the needs of different cohorts and children ensuring music is inclusive for all.
Kapow Primary’s Music scheme of work enables pupils to meet the end of key stage attainment targets outlined in the National curriculum and the aims of the scheme align with those in the National curriculum.
For further information on the music curriculum and inclusion, please visit our website.
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.
Currently children are able to access private instrumental lessons, for a fee, through our local music hub, Musica Kirklees. Peripatetic teachers visit the school each week to deliver these lessons.
We also provide opportunities for children to work with Rock Steady music group and offer subsidised places for pupils eligible for the pupil premium grant.
Children take part in weekly singing assembly where they are given the opportunity to learn new songs and perform in a large group.
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.
This year the school is taking part in the Kirklees Music Festival. This offers an opportunity for our Year 5 children to sing at the town hall in Huddersfield with other schools from our local area.
Each Key Stage takes part in a performance each year. EYFS and KS1 perform our Christmas Nativity. Years 3, 5 and 5 put on an Easter performance and Year 6 perform an end of year show. All these performances offer opportunities to sing, act, dance in front of a larger, wider audience.
Each month, a class has the opportunity to sing at our local chapel, providing entertainment for our local community.
This year the whole school experienced a professional pantomime at a theatre in
In the future
This is about what the school is planning for subsequent years.
Kapow has been introduced to school this year and we are using their transition plan whilst we implement the new scheme, with a view to being ready to run the scheme of work fully in September.
This year we would like to set up a school choir and an instrumental club (ukuleles). These clubs will offer further opportunities for children to perform in front of an audience.
When our scheme of work is fully in place we look forward to show casing a unit of work each term to the rest of school during assembly time.
Further information (optional)
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 for support beyond school. Music education: information for parents and young people - GOV.UK
For more information about private instrument lessons and ensembles your child can get involved in please visit Musica Kirklees