Within the Music department at Highfield, we are determined that every pupil is given the opportunity to show their creativity and be inspired by a rich, diverse curriculum. We teach to engage and inspire pupils to develop a love of music which will in turn increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement.
We ensure a broad curriculum which allows for pupils to explore music from around the world and across generations, teaching children to respect and appreciate the music of all traditions and communities.
Through their time at Highfield, pupils will develop the musical skills of singing, playing tuned and untuned instruments, improvising and composing music, and listening and responding to music. They will have the opportunity to 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 pupils develop transferable skills such as team-work, leadership, creative thinking, problem solving, decision making, and presentation and performance skills. These skills are vital to the pupil’s development as learners and have a wider application in their general lives outside and beyond the classroom.
Staff at Highfield know good music teaching happens when:
- Pupils have the opportunity to listen, perform, compose or appraise in every lesson.
- Pupils have opportunities to listen to a wide variety of music from different times and genres.
- Pupils are supported and challenged as listeners, composers and performers, and demonstrate high levels of enjoyment and engagement.
- Learning builds on previous work and makes links to future work with regular opportunities for revisiting prior knowledge.
- Lessons are inclusive and allow opportunities for challenge.
As well as promoting Music through the curriculum, we aim to offer a range of opportunities for personal development through extra-curricular activities. We aim to inspire and challenge pupils to perform and contribute in small groups to large scale performances throughout the academic year.
When pupils leave Highfield we are determined that they will be creative, confident, resilient, reflective and musically articulate.
