At St Anthony’s School we are committed to deliver a rich, engaging and creative curriculum that inspires a love of learning. As part of this commitment we use KAPOW Music, an innovative and comprehensive music program designed especially for primary schools. KAPOW Music provides an exciting and progressive curriculum that nurtures musical skills, creativity and confidence in children of all ages and abilities.
We embed the key strands of musical teaching: performing, listening, composing, the history of music, and the interrelated dimensions of music. During the children’s time at St Anthony’s, they will have the opportunity to play tuned and untuned instruments, sing, and perform. Each class will be taught music each term with a designated hour-long Music lesson.
In Year 4, the children have an opportunity to develop their musical skills, where they are taught to play the ukulele as a whole class, this is provided by Hertfordshire Music Service. This provides children with the opportunity to play a new instrument and develop their musicianship. Children in KS2 that are in the Mini Vinnies, had the opportunity to sing in a choir run by Pauline Wilson, they were able to sing at carol service at Holy Rood Church in December.
At St Anthony’s we believe music is a powerful way for children to express themselves, build confidence and develop a sense of achievement. That is why we provide a range of exciting performance opportunities to showcase our pupils’ musical talents and celebrate hard work. All children have the opportunity to perform at our community afternoon in the Autumn term, EYFS and KS1 children perform the Nativity story and children in Year 5 and 6 will all take part in a summer performance.
Music a vital part of our curriculum, enriching the lives of our pupils and preparing them with skills and experiences they will carry into the future.
Music in Nursery
During the Autumn term Mr Jo visited Nursery to sing with us. He taught us many nursery rhymes and Christmas songs and we taught him some songs too. He also taught us the different parts of his guitar and what each part does and explained some tricky terms like tempo and pitch.
Music in Year 5
In Year 5 the children have been learning about the genre, jazz. They have listed to various pieces of music, listening carefully to the instruments they can hear, the melody, tempo and the beat, or pulse. They were learning to play ‘The Three Note Bosa’ using the notes G, A and B. We have used glockenspiels to play along with the main melody of the song, and then used these notes to compose our own solo. One of our children plays the guitar, so they played the notes on their own instrument!
Music in Year 6
In the Autumn term we were learning a song called Happy by Pharell Williams. We started by learning the words to the song and then we introduced some instruments.