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Music
Music is a piece of art that goes in the ears straight to the heart
Music progression across the school.
Music Development Plan Trotts Hill Primary and Nursery School
Creative Crew 2025-2026
Violin Lessons offered to all Year 5 children
Do you enjoy your music lessons?
"Yes, because I have more freedom to show who I am and my personality" Giselle"Yes, because it makes me happy" Isla
"Yes, because I like learning new beats and tunes" Leon
"Yes, because I like listening to it and singing it" Reggie
What do you like learning in your music lessons?
"Learning the violin and singing" Ilaria"I like learning to play drums" Freddie"
"Learning to sing and preforming" Jase
"I like playing instruments and preforming" Brian
Intent
The National Curriculum for music aims to ensure that all children are taught:
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How to Sing, through careful listening, and well-developed sense of pitch and sing in harmony.
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Listen to music as it is fundamental to musical understanding and to have a deeper understanding of how music is constructed.
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Compose, to create musical sounds, vocal chants, body percussion and creating rhythm and pitch.
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Musicianship, to understand the musical terminology for Pulse/beat, Rhythm and Pitch
At Trotts Hill, children gain a firm understanding of what music is through listening, singing, playing, evaluating, and composing across historical periods, and musical genres. We are committed to ensuring children understand the value and importance of music in the wider community and are able to use their musical skills, knowledge, and experiences to involve themselves in music, in a variety of different contexts.
Implementation
The music curriculum ensures children sing, listen, play, perform and evaluate. As a school we are now using Singup as our music scheme across the school. This scheme ensures that all children are taught a variety of skills and knowledge in line with the national curriculum. This is embedded in the classroom activities as well as the weekly singing assemblies, choir sessions for KS2 children, performances, and the learning of instruments. The elements of music are taught in the classroom lessons so that children are able to use some of the language of music to dissect it, and understand how it is played, and appreciated. In key stage 2 children learn how to play an instrument, from strings, percussion and tuned percussion (glockenspiel). Children are taught to create notes as well as how to read basic music notation. Composing or performing using body percussion and vocal sounds is also part of the curriculum, which develops the understanding of musical elements without the added complexity of an instrument. The history periods and musical genres are taught throughout Key stage 2 by listening to, appreciating, and composing whilst studying BBC Ten Pieces and assembly music. During the school year, children have the opportunity of listening to a variety of different genres. As a school we ensure that there is diversity in music including and representing, different cultural backgrounds, genders and ethnic groups.
Impact
Whilst in school, children have access to a varied programme, which allows them to discover areas of strength, as well as areas they might like to improve upon. The integral nature of music and the learner creates an enormously rich palette from which a child may access fundamental abilities such as: achievement, self-confidence, interaction with and awareness of others, and self-reflection. Music will also develop an understanding of culture and history, from across the world. Children are able to enjoy music in as many ways as they choose - either as listener, creator or performer. They can dissect music and comprehend its parts. They can sing and feel a pulse. The Music Mark has recognised that Trotts Hill provide a variety of opportunities and resources, giving the children the confidence and opportunities to perform and develop their musical journey.
Curriculum Overviews 2025-2026
2025-2026
Summer Term 2026
Year 4
Combining their French and music, year 4 learnt to sing Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes.
Year 3
Year 3 are progressing really well using the glockenspiels to accompany a piece of music.
Year 6 Performance
A fabulous end of year performance showcased the wonderful year 6 pupils.
Year 5 Violin Performance
What a wonderful end of year performance year 5 created to show their parents/carers how much they have learnt.
pring Term
Spring Term 2026
Young Voices
Once again our year 5/6 choir, were given the opportunity of performing alongside 9000 children in the annual Young Voices concert.
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Celebration Evening
We had a wonderful Celebration evening, showcasing our Arts Faculty and our very talented children.
Year 2
Year 2 performed a spectacular dance to I Just Might by Bruno Mars.
Choir
The choir performed three amazing songs, We get Up Again, Be the Change and Love as our Guide. They were three very different songs, with a change in tempo, dynamics and genre.
Year 5 and 6 dance
The upper key stage 2 dance club, performed a wonderful dance. They worked really well with their partner and as solo dancers.
Year 6 Indian song and dance
In music this year, year 6 learnt an Indian song and dance called Ame sau vala tara bal. They sang and danced beautifully and it was so lovely to see boys wanting to join in and perform.
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Choir performing at Care Homes
Every year our choir is invited to perform at our local care homes. They sang beautifully and the old folk joined in with an array of Christmas carols.
Christmas performance
Key Stage 2, once again put on a spectacular performance of singing, dancing, reciting poems and getting everyone into the Christmas spirit. They spoke beautifully and sang with articulation and passion. A wonderful way to finish the year!
Year 6 Christmas performance
Year 5 Christmas Performance
Year 4 Christmas Performance
Year 3 Christmas performance
Key Stage 1 Christmas Performance.
Key stage 1 dazzled us with their great performances.
Wriggly Nativity - Reception Class Christmas performance
The reception put on a wonderful performance, they sang, danced and entertained their parents/carers.
Nursery Performance, We're Going On a Baby Hunt
Nursery found the baby as they sang and danced their way through the nativity story.
