At Thomas's Academy, we follow The Kapow Primary Music scheme which is designed to help pupils recognise themselves as musical and to nurture a lifelong love of music.

The scheme develops the skills, knowledge, and understanding needed to become confident performers, composers, and listeners. The curriculum introduces pupils to music from across the world, encouraging respect and appreciation for the music of all traditions and communities.

Pupils build musical skills through singing, playing tuned and untuned instruments, improvising, composing and listening and responding to music. They develop an understanding of the historical and cultural context of the music they encounter and learn how music can be notated.

The scheme also supports the development of transferable skills, including teamwork, leadership, creative thinking, problem-solving, decision-making and presentation and performance abilities. These skills are integral to pupils’ development as learners and have wide application in their lives beyond school.

The Five Strands

The National curriculum organises the attainment targets for Music under:

• Listening and evaluating
• Creating sound
• Notation
• Improvising and composing
• Performing – singing and playing.

Accordingly, Kapow Primary’s Music curriculum has been structured with these strands running through each unit. The strands ensure balanced coverage of the different areas of Music and that both substantive and disciplinary aspects are covered.

Kapow Curriculum Overview