Arts

At Springhallow, it is essential for pupils to develop their musical abilities, become more musical and progress as musicians. The curriculum is designed to ensure progression and the three I’s at Springhallow (Intent – what is meant to be learnt; Implementation – how we plan to meet the intent and Impact – how effective the implementation was.)

The curriculum aims to achieve this through improving pupils’ ability to control and manipulate sound, enhance pupils’ knowledge of the inter-related dimensions of music and building blocks of compositions and to support pupils’ understandings of the social significance and cultural meanings of different types of music. These small steps have been designed in order to allow pupils to reach high quality outcomes in Music, participate in making and composing music for a variety of relevant purposes in group and individual contexts and to make great progress in the subject.

Music has a range of further benefits for our pupils. For example, developing a love of music is significant towards supporting pupils’ well-being; Music helps to develop pupils’ ability to work collaboratively, supports their gross and fine motor skills, develops their speaking and listening skills, enhances their vocabulary, provides much enjoyment, many opportunities for creativity and can improve thier overall well-being.

In the past, pupils have had the opportunity to perform at many different settings/events, such as The Royal Albert Hall where they were joined by Ed Sheeran on stage, and these are some of the experiences pupils cherish the most from school, providing them with huge amounts of happiness, satisfaction and long-term transferable skills to take into adult life.”