Our intent for music education at Newfield Primary School is to provide our pupils with creative and engaging musical experiences that promote a love and appreciation of music. We aim to develop pupils' musical skills and knowledge through a carefully sequenced curriculum that is inclusive and accessible to all. Our approach to music education is underpinned by a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.

At Newfield Primary School, the school has adopted the Kapow Primary music scheme. It is designed first and foremost to help children to feel that they are musical, and to develop a life-long love of music. The scheme focuses on developing the skills, knowledge and understanding that children need in order to become confident performers, composers, and listeners. The 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, the curriculum helps children develop transferable skills such as team-working, 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. Kapow Primary’s Music scheme of work enables pupils to meet the end of key stage attainment targets outlined in the National curriculum and the aims of the scheme align with those in the National curriculum.

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