Music development plan summary:
Dr Radcliffe’s CoE Primary School, Steeple Aston.
Detail | Information |
Academic year that this summary covers | 2024 / 2025 |
Date this summary was published | September 2024 |
Date this summary will be reviewed | July 2025 |
Name of the school music lead | Katie McGurk |
Name of local music hub | Oxfordshire Music Hub |
This is a summary of how our school delivers music education to all our pupils across three areas – curriculum music, co-curricular provision and peformances – and what changes we are planning in future years. This information is to help pupils and parents or carers understand what our school offers and who we work with to support our pupils’ music education.
This is about what we teach in lesson time, how much time is spent teaching music and any music qualifications or awards that pupils can achieve.
Music is taught for one hour a week to Key Stages 1 and 2. Please see https://www.dr-radcliffes.org.uk/music-1/ for:-
ODST (our MAT) provide subject development opportunities for the Music Coordinator. |
This is about opportunities for pupils to sing and play music, outside of lesson time, including choirs, ensembles and bands, and how pupils can make progress in music beyond the core curriculum.
We have a choir of about 60 children. Our school orchestra has about 15 children.
We have peripatetic music teachers in woodwind, brass, violin, piano and ukelele. We have over 40 children taking lessons from these teachers. A number of those children sit ‘grade’ examinations in their instruments, some in more than one.
We have a range of instruments to lend out. Generally, lessons are paid for directly to the peripatetic teachers but we have subsidised lessons for pupil premium children.
There is no charge for choir and orchestra. We have a music room in which children can practise individually or in groups. . |
This is about all the other musical events and opportunities that we organise, such as singing in assembly, concerts and shows, and trips to professional concerts.
Children regularly sing in school, including in Worship through Song assembles on Wednesdays.
Opportunities for performance include:
Children from other year groups attend these shows. We also sing in Church in many of our six visits to the Church each year, including the Harvest Festival. Children also have the opportunity to perform at assemblies, including our Friday celebration assemblies.
Year 6 children raise money each year to go to a yearly visit to a musical in London. Recent shows have included Hamilton and Mrs Doubtfire.
We also have links with Oxford Opera who deliver performance opportunities in school. |
This is about what the school is planning for subsequent years.
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The Department for Education publishes a guide for parents and young people on how they can get involved in music in and out of school, and where you can go to for support beyond the school. |