Music
The All Saints’ Way…
Music Curriculum Intent...
Discovering God | Learning Together | Achieving Our Best
At All Saints’ Primary, we believe that music is a universal language—one that inspires creativity, fosters self-expression, and brings people together. In line with the National Curriculum, we recognise music as a vital part of a broad and balanced education, enriching the lives of our pupils and helping to shape the narrative of who they are becoming.
Rooted in our Christian vision and values, our music curriculum supports children in discovering God through the beauty and spirituality of music. It offers opportunities for worship, reflection, and stillness, allowing children to explore their faith and inner world.
By learning together, pupils engage with diverse and multicultural musical experiences, listen and respond to a wide range of styles, and grow as singers, performers, and composers. Music becomes a shared language through which our school community connects—across classrooms, families, and the wider world.
We encourage all children to achieve their best by developing confidence, creativity, and resilience in their musical journey. Whether performing, composing, or simply listening, music supports their wellbeing, nurtures joy, and builds a strong foundation for lifelong appreciation.
At All Saints’, music is more than a subject—it is a joyful and transformative journey that helps our children flourish in every sense: spiritually, emotionally, and academically.
Implementation...
The music curriculum at All Saints’ ensures students can sing, listen, play, perform and evaluate, with appropriate progression through their years in primary school. This is embedded through classroom lessons as well as collective worships, concerts and performances, the learning of instruments from specialist peripatetic teachers and the joining of musical ensembles. The main elements of music are taught by classteachers using Kapow, a high quality, up to date online resource, and through specialist brass teachers when children reach KS2. Children are taught to play tuned and untuned instruments from an early age, and through doing so they are taught to understand the different principles of creating notes, how to devise and read their own musical scores and basic music notation.
Impact…
Whilst in school, children have opportunities to create their own musical journey, which allows them to discover areas of strength, areas they would like to improve, and where their enjoyment in music lies. The nature of music is personal and therefore unique to each child; we recognise the importance music has in developing the whole child, the golden thread that runs through the curriculum at All Saints’. We also appreciate music’s spiritual qualities and its ability to enable children to know God. Music allows children to access fundamental qualities such as achievement, self-confidence, awareness of self and others and self reflection. Music also develops an understanding of culture and history, both in relation to All Saints’ pupils and different ethnicities around the world. All children, regardless of ability or SEND, are able to enjoy music however they choose, either as a listener, creator or performer and we envisage the musical seeds sown here will continue to grow as our children move on.
