Music at HCFS

Our music curriculum is designed to increase self-confidence, creativity and a sense of achievement. High-quality teaching and resources inspire children to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians. Children develop a critical engagement with music through our 6 golden threads. These include; listening, singing, playing, evaluating, analysing and composing across a wide variety of musical genres, styles, traditions and historical periods.  Substantive knowledge focuses on developing children’s skills and knowledge required for them to develop as musicians and has been interweaved across the curriculum, allowing children to encounter and apply these in different contexts. Children should develop their understanding, make musical judgements, apply their new learning, express themselves physically, emotionally and through discussion and create their own musical ideas.

Charanga at HCFS

Music is taught once a week using the website which is supported by Hertfordshire Schools recommened site Charanga. The scheme for the Music Curriculum follows a differentiated, spiral approach to musical learning which responds to the national requirements for musical education. Within each unit of learning, students revisit existing knowledge and skills and then build upon and extend them incrementally. In this manner, learning is consolidated and augmented, allowing for increasing musical confidence, while constantly being gently challenged to go further.

For more information about what your child is learning, please speak with their Class Teacher.