MUSIC
October 2025
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” Plato
The National Curriculum for music aims to ensure that all children:
- perform, listen to, review and evaluate music
- be taught to sing, create and compose music
- understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated
Intent, Implementation, Impact and Inclusion
Our intent is that every child will leave St Lawrence Primary School with a love of music and the skills to perform, listen, evaluate and compose. They will experience a variety of historical periods, styles, traditions, and musical genres and an understanding that music has the power to unite communities, express emotion, and foster well-being and resilience both in their lives and in the wider world.
They will all have the opportunity to experience live music through concerts and visiting musicians.
All children have access to music regardless of their academic ability, race, ethnicity, background and language. SEND pupils are actively encouraged to participate fully as music is often an area of the curriculum which allows them to excel.
In KS2 all children will learn to play the recorder and leave with the skills to read staff notation to a good standard. The children will also use the BBC Ten Pieces and Musical Storyland as the basis for curriculum work.
Performance plays an important part in school life and children are encouraged to ‘take the stage’ from an early age. All children have the opportunity to sing a solo publically, and the vast majority do.
We want each child to leave with happy memories of music making at St Lawrence and lasting skills. We want children to have been introduced to best quality music possible, to have the opportunity to rehearse and perform music and to have a life-long love of music in all its forms.
All children, whatever their backgrounds or abilities, will benefit from a music education here at St. Lawrence. Musical inclusion occurs by identifying and removing barriers to ensure that all children enjoy full participation in a music education. This also requires adapting to the individual abilities, needs and interests of each participant, together with differentiating objectives and outcomes appropriately.
‘Musical Inclusion is about removing barriers to ensure all children enjoy full participation in a music education which supports the development and achievement of each young person based on their individual abilities, needs and interests’. – Dr. Phil Mullen
A Common Approach is designed for all learners of all abilities, whatever their background and diverse needs. Activities will be selected accordingly and differentiated so that all can participate, and lessons will have sufficient flexibility to develop suitable activities in the light of learners’ needs and responses.
This may mean:
- encouraging learners to have a voice in choosing learning material, and in how they learn
- recognising learners’ interest and ability, especially if they cannot always convey it
- adapting or selecting instruments for learners with severe physical disabilities,
e.g. providing special supports or using accessible digital instruments - changing the order of the curriculum
- adapting repertoire and activities so that they are relevant and attractive to learners
- ensuring that different learning styles are catered for
- ensuring that resources are accessible, such as using large print, raised notations or assistive technology
- encouraging and building on learners’ language, social, emotional, cognitive and physical development
- providing learning/practice and progression opportunities at times/locations that are accessible to disadvantaged pupils.
MUSIC ASSESSMENT SUITCASES KS1
MUSIC ASSESSMENT SUITCASES KS2