Music in Twiss Green Community Primary School is delivered using the Kapow scheme of learning. Every class receives music teaching every week over 4 out of 6 half terms per year.

Differentiation is achieved by resource, task, support and outcome through teachers’ delivery of the Kapow planning.

All pupils are encouraged to participate in and enjoy music lessons regardless of race, culture, gender, ability or physical limitations. A mutual respect and tolerance for all cultures will be promoted through the study of music.

Pupils with special educational needs are able to develop confidence through the expression of their feelings in music. Teachers set high expectations of pupils and ensure that adjustments are made to give every pupil the opportunity to achieve.

Intent

The intention of Twiss Green's music curriculum via Kapow Primary music scheme is first and foremost to help children to feel that they are musical, and to develop a life-long love of music. We focus on developing the skills, knowledge and understanding that children need in order to become confident performers, composers, and listeners. Our 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, our 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. At Twiss Green, our music curriculum 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.

Implementation

Twiss Green's Music curriculum via Kapow scheme takes a holistic approach to music, in which the individual strandselow are woven together to create engaging and enriching learning experiences:
● Listening and evaluating
● Creating sound
● Notation
● Improvising and composing
● Performing

Each five-lesson unit combines these strands within a cross-curricular topic designed to capture pupils’ imagination and encourage them to explore music enthusiastically. Over the course of the scheme, children will be taught how to sing fluently and expressively, and play tuned and untuned instruments accurately and with control. They will learn to recognise, demonstrate and name the interrelated dimensions of music - pitch, duration, tempo, timbre, structure, texture and dynamics - and use these expressively in their own improvisations and compositions.

Impact

The expected impact of following the Kapow Primary Music scheme of work is that children will:
✓ Be confident performers, composers and listeners and will be able to express themselves
musically at and beyond school.
✓ Show an appreciation and respect for a wide range of musical styles from around the world and
will understand how music is influenced by the wider cultural, social, and historical contexts in
which it is developed.
✓ Understand the various ways in which music can be written down to support performing and
composing activities.
✓ Demonstrate and articulate an enthusiasm for music and be able to identify their own personal
musical preferences.
✓ Meet the end of key stage expectations outlined in the National curriculum for Music.