Music
Music
Music is taught to every year group at Archibald. Within EYFS, the children access the music curriculum through the Early Years curriculum.
From Reception to Year 4, the Kapow Music program is followed ensuring that music teaching and learning incorporates all aspects of the curriculum and is progressive throughout the school.
As a school, we work with the Newcastle Music Service who provide specialist music teaching in school. They deliver tuned instrument tuition to every child in years 1 – 4. In key stage 1 the children study glockenspiel and in key stage 2 they study ukulele. In addition to this children in nursery and reception are provided with piccolo workshops in the summer term. The Newcastle Music Service also run Gosforth School Voices and Band, and along with NEMCO provide us with peripatetic teaching of violin, guitar and trumpet to Key Stage 2. Children in key stage 2 are also offered a ukulele club and all children have the opportunity to attend “Rock Up and Sing!”. A club to celebrate music, singing and to promote happy and healthy minds.
For the academic years 2023 and 2024, school will work with Newcastle Cathedral on the National Schools Singing Programme – this will involve children in Year 3.
As part of our cultural capital, during music curriculum sessions and assemblies to children are exposed to different genres, eras, composers, styles of music. Each year group has a set of composer and musicians that they study and appraise throughout the year these are carefully selected to include; classical composers, film composers, female composers, women in music, music from different cultures and British influencers. Music with local links is listened to and studied as part of our singing assemblies.
