Intent

At West Wycombe, the Music curriculum is designed to help children recognise that they are musical and to foster a life long love of music. Through singing, playing real instruments, composing, listening, and performing, pupils build their skills and confidence year by year while exploring music from different cultures, traditions, and time periods. Our curriculum develops children as performers, composers, and listeners, while also nurturing transferable skills such as creativity, teamwork, leadership, and problem-solving, preparing them for life both within and beyond school. We are passionate about providing children the experience of playing real instruments and performing in front of an audience.

We focus on developing the skills, knowledge and understanding that children need in order to become confident performers, composers, and listeners. Our curriculum introduces children to music from all around the world and across generations, teaching children to respect and appreciate the music of all traditions and communities.

Children will develop the musical skills of singing, playing tuned and untuned instruments, improvising and composing music, and listening and responding to music. They will develop an understanding of the history and cultural context of the music that they listen to and learn how music can be written down.

Through music, our curriculum helps children develop transferable skills such as team work, leadership, creative thinking, problem solving, decision making, and presentation and performance skills. These skills are vital to children’s development as learners and have a wider application in their general lives outside and beyond school.