At St Hedda’s we want our children to love music. Our vision is to give children access to an engaging and fun music curriculum reflecting the world they live in now, but at the same time giving them access to musical styles throughout history. Children are able to listen and appraise a variety of musical styles alongside performing pieces and creating their own compositions through the use of technology. To achieve this all children access a variety of musical games, songs, instruments and extra-curricular activities giving them practical hands on experience.

We hope children continue to grow in confidence as they progress through the musical curriculum and become passionate in their responses to music. Added to this, we want children to become more independent learners within this area, reflect upon their learning and develop resilience within the musical world.

In EYFS, children represent their own ideas, thoughts and feelings through design and technology, art, music, dance, role-play and stories. Children learn and sing a range of nursery rhymes, move to and talk about music and sing in a group or on their own, increasingly matching the pitch and following the melody. Children also play instruments with increasing control to express their feelings and ideas. They have access to a range of musical instruments as part of child led continuous learning.