Music promotes diversity and is used to express the children's personal, emotional, social and cultural identity. All children have the right to a quality music curriculum throughout school. At St. Matthew’s Primary School the intention is that pupils 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.
At St. Matthew’s Primary School, our intention for the music curriculum is first and foremost to help children to feel that they are musical, and to develop a life-long love of music. We focus on developing the skills, knowledge and understanding that children need in order to become confident performers, composers, and listeners.
Our curriculum introduces children to music from all around the world and across generations, teaching children to respect and appreciate the music of all traditions and communities. Children will develop the musical skills of singing, playing tuned and untuned instruments, improvising and composing music, and listening and responding to music. They will develop an understanding of the history and cultural context of the music that they listen to and learn how music can be written down.
Through music, our curriculum helps children develop transferable skills such as team working, leadership, creative thinking, problem-solving, decision-making, and presentation and performance skills. These skills are vital to children’s development as learners and have a wider application in their general lives outside and beyond school.
Our Music scheme of work enables pupils to meet the end of key stage attainment targets outlined in the National curriculum and the aims of the scheme align with those in the National curriculum.
Each half term we have a different composer / genre of music that we listen to.
Our composer of the term is Vivaldi.
Vivaldi was born in Italy and trained to be a priest.
He taught violin to children in and orphanage. Musicians travelled to Italy to be taught by him.
Travelled around Europe playing and composing music.
His famous works include the Four Seasons.
Click here to listen to some music by Vivaldi.
Music policy
Music Overview
Our next concerts are:
Wednesday 27th November - School Advent Service
Monday 16th December - Carol Singing at ASDA
Friday 7th February - Young Voices at Co-op Live Arena
Tickets can be bought from the YV music room. Deadline 25th November
Our school choir is made up with children from Years 3, 4, 5 and 6. We meet weekly after school and practice throughout the year for a range of different concerts and performances.
Whole school celebration at Church
We perform in church for the whole school celebrations at Harvest, Advent and Easter. These performances also allow the pupils to have the opportunity to do a solo if they would like.
Young Voices
Each year we also perform as part of the Young Voices choir. We practice ten songs for the Autumn term, and this culminates in a performance at the AO Arena or Co-op Live Arena in Manchester alongside a choir of 8000+ children. It really is an amazing experience, as children get to perform alongside some famous musicians. In the past these have been Tony Hadley, Fleur East, Heather Small, and this year we sang alongside MC Grammar.
Bolton Music Festival
The choir joins other schools across Bolton each June to perform in Bolton Music Festival. They sing 5/6 songs as part of a massed choir and then get the opportunity to sing on the stage as St. Matthew's Choir.
Carol Singing
At Christmas we go carol singing at different venues around Bolton. This year we sang at ASDA, and we were also invited to sing in the library at Crompton Place.
LKS2 music club (Spring 1 term)
Children in Years 3 and 4 have had the opportunity to attend a music club after school.
They have learnt about different tuned and untuned instruments, and had the chance to play a wide range of instruments.
Here's what some children said :
'I enjoy coming to music club because I learn lots of things.'
'I like playing all the different instruments.'
'I'm happy that I can play instruments with my friends.'
' I like learning new instruments.'
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