At Paxton Academy, children learn how to be a valuable member of a musical group where they build their social skills and confidence. We ensure all children have extra music sessions as we believe music education offers young people the chance to understand, perform and create in an acoustic dimension that often sits outside their capacity to describe in words. We aim to develop a love for music.
All children at Paxton Academy have a weekly music lesson following the award-winning music scheme 'Churanga'. In addition to this, Y4 benefit from a weekly keyboard lesson with Yamaha Music School and Y5 and Y6 have a weekly lesson with a specialist steel pan teacher to ensure exposure to a wide range of musical opportunities.
The Charanga Musical School Scheme provides teachers with week-by-week lesson support for each year group in the school. It is ideal for specialist and non-specialist teachers and provides lesson plans, clear progression and engaging and exciting whiteboard resources to support every lesson. The scheme supports all the requirements of the national curriculum.
This scheme allows for an integrated, practical, exploratory and child-led approach to musical learning. The interrelated dimensions of music weave through the units to encourage the development of musical skills as the learning progresses through listening and appraising, differing musical activities (including creating and exploring) and performing.
To ensure consistency throughout the school, leaders ensure that:
As a result of this, pupils make good progress from their starting points and teaching and learning is consistent.
