Music
Our out-of-this-world collaboration concert with St.Mary’s
Our band, choir and Glee club produced a sensational music concert with our collaboration school St. Mary’s Claughton. The pupils raised a fantastic amount of money to purchase new musical instruments for both schools to continue the love of music. Please click the link below to see the outstanding standard of music at our primary schools.
Statement of Intent
St Francis Catholic Primary School understands that music is a unique way of communicating that can inspire and motivate children. It is a vehicle for personal expression, and it can play an important part in the personal development of people. Music reflects the culture and society we live in, and so the teaching and learning of music enables children to better understand the world they live in. Besides being a creative and enjoyable activity, music can also be a highly academic and demanding subject. It also plays an important part in helping children feel part of a community. We provide opportunities for all children to create, play, perform and enjoy music, to develop the skills, to appreciate a wide variety of musical forms, and to begin to make judgements about the quality of music. Music also helps pupil’s mental health and wellbeing and gives them the opportunity to express themselves freely.
St. Francis Catholic Primary School delivers a broad and balanced music curriculum, in line with national requirements. We place great emphasis on developing music throughout school. Pupils as early as Year 1 take part in Glee Club and choir and we have a phenomenal school band.
Children take ABRSM grades and enjoyment and participation has vastly grown over the past few years.
The objectives of teaching music in our school enable pupils to:
- Perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres styles and traditions, including the works of the great composers and musicians.
- know how music is influenced by the time, place and purpose for which it was written;
- Learn to sing and use their voices.
- Create and compose music on their own and alongside their peers.
- Know how music is made through a variety of instruments;
- Know how music is composed and written down;
- Have the opportunities to learn a musical instrument, use technology properly and to progress to the next level of musical excellence.
- Understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated, including through the inter-related dimensions: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations.