Throughout the academic year 3 of our classes here at Cold Aston will be taught by a specialist music teacher for a period of 10 weeks each. This Year Beech Class have an Introduction to Infant Strings. Sycamore Class will be learning to play the violin and Scots Pine will be learning how to play the Clarinet. When not receiving specialist instrumental tuition class teachers will be teaching Music using the Charanga Scheme. The scheme was established to ensure that all the objectives are covered from the national curriculum with supporting information including a vast library of songs, topics, videos and apps to support the delivery in the classroom. We are following the model music scheme in Year 1 up to Year 6. The scheme also allows for personalised learning as needed.

Respect- Pupils have access to valuable instruments that they are trusted to use and care for. These will be used during high quality music lessons and all children will be encouraged to also use their voices expressively as an instrument. Pupils will be encouraged to share their likes and dislikes using musical language they have learnt.

Resilience- Pupils perform to parents and or peers as a way to demonstrate and celebrate their learning and shine as both individuals and a group.  

Responsible- All pupils’ enjoyment and enthusiasm of a variety of musical genre will be nurtured through tuned and untuned instruments being available in class to use / experiment with during ‘choosing’ time and regularly listening to different styles of music. All pupils will be encouraged to share how the music makes them feel and share their likes and dislikes.

Purpose of Study

Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity. A high quality music education should engage and inspire pupils to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians, and so increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement. As pupils progress, they should develop a critical engagement with music, allowing them to compose, and to listen with discrimination to the best in the musical canon.

Peripatetic Music Lessons

We are lucky to offer individual or group musical lessons with specialist music teachers. Currently we offer Piano, Guitar, Saxophone, Clarinet and Flute.

Extra Curricular Experiences

Choir Club. Choir was run in the Autumn Term. Pupils in Year 4, 5 and 6 were invited to sing in a concert with a paying audience! The press poster for this concert is on this page. The impact of this wonderful opportunity was summed up in these comments from the pupils below;

‘ I loved it’ ‘It was one of the best experiences of my life’, ‘ I liked the feeling of singing with a live orchestra’.

Choir is also running in Term 2 . This time it is open to all pupils in Year 1 upwards. They will be working towards performing during the KS1 Nativity.