Music at Pitmaston
At Pitmaston, we recognise that music is a universal language that embraces creativity and diversity. We believe that music is for everyone. We instil in our pupils a love and passion for music; there are many opportunities to compose and listen to music – responding, evaluating and reviewing with attention to detail. Every individual forms and expresses their own opinions about different pieces of music and musical genres; and we respect the variety of tastes and expressions of music within our school community.
We have chosen the human voice as our musical instrument that we learn across school from Early Years through to Year 6. When the pupils are having their singing and music lessons, we are following our Pitmaston singing progression map for our pupils to ensure that they are developing and progressing in their musical and singing abilities with the ambition that they are developing their musical knowledge and skills.
We are aiming for pupils to increase their accuracy, fluency, control and expression when singing, growing to be confident performers, who are more and more musical with a breadth of opportunities.
In addition, pupils learn how to play and perform on a minimum of three musical instruments and improvise and compose their own music, both digitally and acoustically. They are taught in our well-resourced, purpose-built music room.
The music curriculum at Pitmaston is progressive, exciting and ambitious from the Early Years to Year 6, following our bespoke music curriculum that develops musical concepts, knowledge and skills in line with the Model Music Curriculum.
We believe that music plays an integral role in helping children to feel part of our community, developing their self-confidence through achievements and performances. Children perform across a wide range of settings including incredible class assemblies linked to the wider curriculum, the annual Christmas Carol Service in the Worcester Cathedral and the Year 6 theatrical production.
As a Thrive ambassador school and Trauma Informed School we value the use of music as a therapeutic tool to support everyone’s well-being in order to regulate pupils, support with transition and aid relaxation.
Our pupils leave Pitmaston with a love of Music for life, confident to enjoy and express themselves musically and creatively.
