Policy

Curriculum Overview

At Waterloo Primary School, we follow the Kapow Primary Music scheme.

The Kapow Primary Music scheme is designed to help pupils recognise themselves as musical and to nurture a lifelong love of music. The scheme develops the skills, knowledge, and understanding needed to become confident performers, composers, and listeners. The curriculum introduces pupils to music from across the world, encouraging respect and appreciation for the music of all traditions and communities.

Pupils build musical skills through singing, playing tuned and untuned instruments, improvising, composing and listening and responding to music. They develop an understanding of the historical and cultural context of the music they encounter and learn how music can be notated.

The scheme also supports the development of transferable skills, including teamwork, leadership, creative thinking, problem-solving, decision-making and presentation and performance abilities. These skills are integral to pupils’ development as learners and have wide application in their lives beyond school.

Music in the Early Years Foundation Stage/Provision

All EYFS classes have a rich diet of music in their classes every day. Singing and playing instruments, as well as exploring sound and rhythm in the outside world, form an integral part of our youngest children's experience. Continuous provision provides opportunities for engagement and exploration and Reception also follow the Kapow music scheme. Provision (ASD) provide a weekly music session following a carefully structured, repetitive format that is linked to their topics, and Provision (Cognition) follow an adapted version of Kapow.

Knowledge Organisers

There is one Knowledge Organiser for each half term - 6 in total - for every class.

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