Our music expert is Mrs Marshall (Level 4 Certificate for Music Educators, Trinity CME)  

Read more about the music curriculum here:

Music Curriculum Intent: To deliver a high-quality music education that engages and inspires pupils to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians, and so increase their self-confidence, creativity and a sense of achievement.

The Music Curriculum: Our Vision

“If music be the food of love, play on.” – William Shakespeare

At Stretton St Matthew's, music is a highly valued, integral part of our school life. We encourage a value of music because it is one of the most powerful and unique forms of communication that can change and impact the way children think, feel and act. We believe that every child should have the opportunity to develop their musical potential and we aim to nurture and encourage musical development across the school.

We make music an enjoyable learning experience. We encourage children to participate in a variety of musical experiences through which we aim to build up the confidence of all children. We ensure that our music lessons are interactive to ensure the children are engaged and inspired.  We aim for our music curriculum to give all children fun, practical and inspiring experiences so that they can enjoy all aspects of music. Children are actively encouraged and given the opportunity to learn to play a musical instrument, from standard classroom instruments to individual instrumental lessons with visiting music specialists.

The elements of music are taught in classroom lessons so that children are able to use some of the language of music to dissect it, and understand how it is made, played, appreciated and analysed. Playing various instruments enables children to use a range of methods to create notes, as well as how to read basic music notation. They also learn how to compose, focusing on different dimensions of music, which in turn feeds their understanding when listening, playing, or analysing music. KS2 Children at St Matthew's are extremely lucky to receive weekly music lessons and instrumental projects with a specialist music teacher.

We enrich our music curriculum with many opportunities for children to perform and develop a wide range of skills both inside and outside of the classroom. In addition to our class instrumental projects, children in KS2 are offered the opportunity to take part in Warrington Youth Orchestra with their instrument provided by school. In addition to this, extra curricular opportunities include singing as part of one of our choirs; singing with the school in assemblies; taking part in annual musical events such as carol services, choir festivals, instrumental concerts and musical performances.

By the time children leave St Matthew's, they will have a rapidly widened repertoire which they will be able to use to create original, imaginative, fluent and distinctive composing and performance works. The children leave us as musicians who possess the following traits:

• Confidence
• Patience
• Modesty
• Creativity
• Resilience

The musicians at St Matthew's will have exceeded the expectations of the National Curriculum and be well prepared for the secondary stages of their musical education.