Hayward's Primary School

Music

Music plays an important role at Hayward’s. We have singing assemblies each week, where we explore bands from the 20th and 21st Centuries, a Hayward’s Choir for the children in Year 5 and Year 6, a specialist music teaching space and a HLTA who provides music provision across the school. We love our singing and are keen to perform whenever possible.

OUR INTENT:

  • We want our children to love Music. We want children to develop their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement through their Musical experiences at our school.

  • We want children at Hayward’s to listen to and engage with live music. We want our children to get opportunities to listen to live musicians and to be inspired to take up instruments themselves.

  • We want children at Hayward’s to have had the opportunity to learn a range of instruments, from the different instrument families. We want children to become excited about taking the instrument further and to undertake lessons both within and outside of school. 

  • We want children at Hayward’s to be experiencing the music of quality composers in their music lessons. Children will be given the opportunity to listen to music (extracts and whole pieces) from a range of genre and to talk about how the music makes them feel. 

  • We want children at Hayward’s to read musical notation, to be confident in recording their ideas and to perform from notation, recorded in a range of forms. 

  • We want our children to sing and to develop the full range of musicianship skills needed to be confident vocal performers. 

  • We want our children to gain confidence from performing to audiences and provide opportunities for our choir to perform in the wider community.  

  • We want children to engage with music outside of school and provide opportunities, through assemblies and wider school communication available to the children outside of school. 

  • We want to support our children in acquiring, through discussion, a rich vocabulary about features of musicianship and how music makes us feel. We want children to be able to talk about the subtleties of music