Music provision is delivered across the whole school in weekly lessons that are creative, collaborative, celebratory and challenging. The programme encourages children to be enthusiastic about music and to develop the skills of those who are already musical as well as those who have had little or no previous access to music.
The Free School Norwich music curriculum is broad and balanced, incorporating music from different time periods, places and cultures. It offers many opportunities to play, perform and experience live music using a wide range of instruments as well as singing provision. It also develops cross-curricular links, enhancing children’s learning across other topics and subjects.
Music across the whole school includes learning in four areas: Listening, Performing, Composing, Reviewing. Short term sequences (covering approx. 6 lessons) include elements of all four learning areas and focus on a specific topic and set of instruments. Topics change termly to ensure that children access a variety of musical instruments and genres whilst developing and advancing their previous learning.
Music lessons are planned in a similar framework to other lessons, using a WALT objective and differentiated appropriately to include pupils of differing abilities and needs. Pupil progress is monitored by the music teacher/subject leader and assessed termly.
