Music

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.

Music policy

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Music Overview

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Our next concert is:

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 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 and this year our choir sang alongside The Beatbox Collective and Heather Small.

Bolton Music Festival

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.