Bromstone Primary School
Music
Our Vision
Dream- Believe- Achieve. Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity. Children at Bromstone will receive a high-quality music education that will engage and inspire pupils to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians, and so increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement.
Aims
The national curriculum for music aims to ensure that all pupils:
- perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions, including the works of the great composers and musicians
- learn to sing and to use their voices, to create and compose music on their own and with others, have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument, use technology appropriately and have the opportunity to progress to the next level of musical excellence
- understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated, including through the interrelated dimensions: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations
At Bromstone, we allow all our children to participate in musical opportunities across all key stages. Children participate in weekly singing assemblies, led by our music leader, in addition to having curriculum music lessons taught by their class teacher. We follow the ‘Sing Up’ scheme in order to ensure musical skills are taught and developed throughout the school. We also link the children’s musical learning to the government’s 2022 national plan for music ‘Power of music to change lives’ and the ‘Model Music Curriculum’.
In Year 4 children receive their ‘Music Plus’ experience with a year’s lessons on the ukulele in a whole class setting.
We offer all children in Key Stage 2 and in Terms 3-6 also children in KS1 the chance to be involved in choir, which is a free extra curricular club. Through this children are given opportunities to perform at a variety of different venues and occasions, including the Young Voices concerts at the O2 in London, local care homes, Christmas Fair in Broadstars and Broadstairs band stand.
We are working closely with based in St Georges Church of England Foundation School, Thanet Music Centre - an inspiring local music hub designed with musicians in mind. They offer a range of lessons and ensembles for musicians of all ages, backgrounds, and interests.
Please visit their page if you are interested.