Music Development Plan 2024 

The aims of this plan   

This is a summary of how Chase Terrace Primary School delivers music education to all our pupils across three areas – curriculum music, extra-curricular provision and musical experiences – and what changes we are planning in future years. This information is to help pupils and parents or carers understand what our school offers and who we work with to support our pupils’ music education. 

We are committed to ensuring children understand the value and importance of music in the wider community and aim to provide opportunities for children to use their musical skills, knowledge and experiences to involve themselves in music, in a variety of different contexts. 

The objectives of teaching music at Chase Terrace Primary School are: 

• Children are given the opportunity to perform, listen to, review and evaluate their own and others music across a range of periods, genres and styles. 

• Children are given the opportunity to explore musical terms and notations. 

• Children are given the opportunity to sing and use their voices to express themselves, create and compose music. 

• Children are given the opportunity to learn a music instrument to enable them to create and compose music with these instruments. 

• Children are given the opportunity to understand how music is created and produced. 

Part A: Curriculum Music  

Curriculum music is taught in lesson time to all pupils. 

Curriculum music lessons are informed by the Kapow Primary and the Model Music Curriculum (non-statutory guidance for music teaching) and provide pupils with opportunities to:  

• Listen to and evaluate music from diverse time periods and cultures. 
• Learn how to create and control sound using their voices, as well as tuned and untuned instruments. 
• Understand how music is communicated through various notation systems. 
• Improvise and compose music. 
• Perform musically in front of audiences of varying sizes. 

Our aim is that an instrumental scheme will also delivered by our teaching staff which gives pupils an opportunity to learn the Ocarina (Early Years/ KS1), Recorder and Glockenspiel (KS2)* for a prolonged period, allowing them to develop technical proficiency on a single instrument. 

Part B: Extra-curricular music  

This section gives information about the opportunities for pupils to sing and play music, outside of lesson time, including choirs, ensembles and bands, and how pupils can make progress in music beyond the core curriculum. 

Opportunities for singing and playing music outside of lesson time support pupil progress beyond the core curriculum therefore there is time dedicated to singing each week with KS1 and KS2 gathering together on alternate weeks. 

Extra-curricular club opportunities are available to all children in KS2 to take part in learning to play the recorder or sing as part of a choir.  

This is an area in which the school will focus on improving in the future. 

Part C: Musical experiences  

Opportunities to participate and be an audience member. 

This section shows all the other musical events and opportunities we organise, such as singing in assemblies, concerts, shows and trips to professional concerts.   

Each Key Phase participates in enrichment activities on Friday afternoons which include singing assemblies as a Key Stage, Sing and Sign and class based music activities. 

Part D: In the future 

Chase Terrace Primary School is committed to continually enhancing musical offerings to pupils. Below are the improvements we plan to implement in the coming years. We welcome your suggestions and encourage you to contact the school if you have any ideas on how we can further improve our musical opportunities.