At Hanslope Primary School, our curriculum is built from the National Curriculum and sequenced through a two-year rolling programme. This ensures that all pupils experience a broad, balanced and carefully planned curriculum, regardless of whether they begin a phase in Cycle A or Cycle B.
Our curriculum is organised around clear golden threads. These golden threads help pupils make meaningful links across units, subjects and year groups. In Music, pupils revisit important musical concepts over time so that their knowledge becomes deeper, more connected and more secure.
Across the school, pupils develop both substantive knowledge and disciplinary knowledge. Substantive knowledge is the key musical content pupils learn, such as musical elements, styles, genres, composers, instruments and traditions from different times and cultures. Disciplinary knowledge is how pupils learn to think and work like musicians, including listening critically, performing, composing, improvising, evaluating music and using musical vocabulary to express their ideas.
Vocabulary is planned carefully so that pupils are able to talk about music with increasing accuracy and confidence. Through regular opportunities to listen, perform, compose and reflect, pupils develop a secure understanding of music and an appreciation of its role in different cultures and communities.
Subject Leader: Miss Molly Peddie