Music Vision Statement

St. Peter’s children will gain a firm understanding of what music is through listening, singing, playing, evaluating, analysing, and composing across a wide variety of historical periods, styles, traditions, and musical genres. They’ll recognise the power of music and the enjoyment it brings into our lives.

Subject Intent

At St. Peter’s our aim is to provide high quality music education that engages and inspires pupils to develop a love of music and nurtures their talent as musicians.

We recognise that through music pupils can increase their self-confidence, sense of belonging, creativity and musical achievement. Our teaching focuses on developing the children’s ability to understand rhythm and follow a beat. Through singing songs, children learn about the structure and organisation of music. We teach them to listen and to appreciate different forms of music. Children develop descriptive language skills in music lessons when learning about how music can represent different feelings, emotions and narratives. We also teach technical vocabulary such as volume, pitch, beat and rhythm and encourage children to discuss music using these terms.