Music

At Willow Brook Primary School, our aim is to enable and inspire every child to become a musician; to actively engage with fun and diverse musical experiences.

We believe that being a musician requires the self-confidence to be creative and take risks. Children build their knowledge and understanding of the elements of music and develop proficiency, as they nurture their love of and an appreciation of music, and achieve personal musical success.

The National Curriculum states that: “As pupils progress, they should develop a critical engagement with music, allowing them to compose, and to listen with discrimination to the best in the musical cannon.” Therefore, the foundations of the  music curriculum are underpinned by the technical, constructive and expressive pillars of musicianship, taught through the key concepts of pulse, rhythm, pitch, structure and notation. Children progressively build their understanding of these concepts in order to listen, compose and perform with growing precision and proficiency. Through this, children will make more music, think more musically and become more musical.

At Willow Brook, we also provide instrumental lessons where children can learn a range of instruments. All children will experience playing recorder, glockenspiels and ukuleles.

Singing is integrated through many subjects in our school. We have weekly singing lessons where we learn about the joy of singing as a group. We also use these sessions to prepare for our KS1 nativity, harvest and carol service.