At Garden Village Primary Academy, our music curriculum first and foremost aims to enable every child to feel that they are musical, and to develop a life-long love of music. We focus on developing the skills, knowledge and understanding that children need in order to become confident performers, composers, and listeners. Our curriculum introduces children 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 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.

Garden Village Primary Academy uses the Kapow music scheme. The teaching of music takes a holistic approach to music, making purposeful connections to engage and provide enriched learning experiences between the following strands:   

● Listening and evaluating

● Creating sound

● Notation

● Improvising and composing

● Performing

The Long-Term Plan for music identifies a sequence of five-lesson units. Each unit combines musical strands within a cross-curricular topic designed to capture pupils’ imagination and encourage them to explore music enthusiastically. Throughout the children's music learning journey, within a year and across the Key Stages, children at Garden Village will be taught how to sing fluently and expressively and play tuned and untuned instruments accurately and with control. They will learn to recognise, demonstrate and name the interrelated dimensions of music - pitch, duration, tempo, timbre, structure, texture and dynamics - and use these expressively in their own improvisations and compositions.