Music at Five Lanes!

Intent Statement

At Five Lanes we understand that music plays an integral part in every child’s creative education. We know that children develop self-confidence, self-esteem and a sense of mental health wellbeing through listening to and creating music. We also know that research says that this can have a positive impact on learning and engagement in other subjects.

We teach Music through the Kapow Music scheme. This provides a spiral curriculum in which the National Curriculum for Music is fulfilled through five individual, interlinking strands to create enriching and engaging learning experiences:

• Performing
• Listening
• Composing
• The history of music
• The inter-related dimensions of music

Each unit combines these strands with cross-curricular links in a way that is designed to capture pupils’ curiosity and encourage them to enthusiastically explore music. 

As Kapow follows the National Curriculum, it provides many examples of musical styles and genres from different times and places. Children will be taught effectively how to recognise, name and communicate using the inter-related dimensions of music: pitch, dynamics, tempo, timbre, structure, texture and duration.  They will then use these expressively as they actively listen, appraise, improvise, compose and perform using both the voice as an instrument, use body percussion and whole body actions and play tuned and untuned instruments with accuracy and control. 

At Five Lanes Primary, we teach our pupils to respect the musical choices and traditions of others. We encourage understanding of how empowering and positive music can be in their own lives, their communities and throughout the world.

Through learning Music at Five Lanes, our pupils will not only learn to express themselves creatively, but they will also learn many transferable skills -  such as problem solving, planning, active listening, time management and resilience, not to mention teamwork and non-verbal communication. 

Ultimately, our aim is that through our Music curriculum, our pupils enjoy making music and are confident to share their own unique musical and creative voice with others.