Music is taught for one hour, fortnightly, using the Charanga music scheme, which has been adapted to meet the needs of our school. Children can learn the guitar or ukulele outside of their music lessons and children also listen to music and sing daily in worship. They also have the opportunity, in KS2, to attend the Young Voices concert. Music lessons follow a structure of listening and appraising music, musical games, singing, playing, improvising, and composing and then performing. Year 1 and Year 4 children will also learn to play the ukulele in their whole class lessons during the year.

In line with the National curriculum for Music, the Charanga scheme allows music to be taught in an integrated, practical, exploratory, and child-led approach. The units of work are at the end of this document, and each comprises of strands of musical learning which correspond with the national curriculum for music.

To complement our curriculum, we offer peripatetic lessons in guitar and ukulele, but there is a small fee for this. However, we negotiate with the teachers to keep this cost down and pay for Pupil Premium children.