Music

We use the Charanga Musical School Scheme to deliver music at Penruddock Primary School. This scheme is ideal for specialist and non-specialist teachers and provides lesson plans, assessment, clear progression, and engaging and exciting whiteboard resources for every lesson.

In addition to our scheme we access the county music service for individual and group tuition when numbers allow. We also offer peripatetic guitar lessons with our external music specialist, Mr Lee Myers. Our music curriculum is inclusive ensuring quality access for all our pupils. In school, our teachers offer First Access recorder and ukulele (whole class instrument tuition) to all our pupils in KS2. Younger children in KS1 also have the opportunity to access ocarinas through class music lessons and music clubs at different times in the year. Recently, following the success of our First Access Ukelele we have introduced a ukulele lunchtime club to build upon and enrich the skills the children have already learnt in their First Access ukulele lessons.

To personalise our scheme in Summer 2024, we adapted the units to the English Model Music Curriculum (MMC) on the Charanga sites to fit better with our 2 year rolling programme. To provide purpose and context to our learning we have built a performance schedule into our scheme ensuring each class has an external performance opportunity at the end of each term or unit. This may take the form of a performance, concert or competition and will be responsive to local opportunities and festivals as they arise. The new lessons, though challenging, are interactive and fun and enable pupils to explore a range of musical styles and genres through the variety of different disciplines of playing, singing, composing, reading notation and performing.

As the scheme is progressive and in recognition of the more challenging content and expectation within this new curriculum some of our older pupils may work outside of their chronological age. This allows our learners to build on firm foundations and to avoid gaps in their skills and knowledge (particularly in regard to their understanding and recall of different keys and music notation). We anticipate that all learners will be working with their year groups as the scheme matures through the school.

For further information please refer to our scheme overview and gallery below. Our Music Subject Leader is Mrs Foley and is available to answer any further questions.