Music

Curriculum Intent

At Burntstump Seely, we hope to foster a lifelong love of music by exposing our children to diverse musical experiences and igniting a passion for music. We want our children to aspire to be musicians! As educators of a diverse community, it is fundamental that our children respect and appreciate the music of all traditions and communities, we therefore ensure our children are introduced to music from all around the world.

Developing children’s confidence in wider areas of school life is contributed to through our music curriculum; we help children develop transferable skills such as team-working, 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.

Our Music Curriculum

We focus on developing the skills, knowledge and understanding that children need in order to become confident performers, composers and listeners; we do this through a spiral curriculum.

Children will be inspired by exciting opportunities to carry out performances and to learn about inspirational musicians who have shaped our world and continue to do so.

Children will develop the musical skills of singing, playing tuned and untuned instruments, improvising and composing music, and listening and responding to music.

In addition, they will develop an understanding of the history and cultural context of the music they listen to and learn how music can be written down.