Intent

At Manor Farm Junior School we hope to foster a lifelong love of music by providing our children with an engaging music curriculum and wide ranging extra-curricular opportunities. We know that music is a unique way of communicating that can inspire and motivate children. It is a vehicle for personal expression, creativity and it can play an important part in the personal development of good citizens. Music will also develop children’s understanding of culture and history, both in relation to students individually, as well as ethnicities from across the world. By listening and responding to different musical styles, finding their voices as singers and performers and as composers, enable our students to become confident, reflective learners. 

‘Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity’ (The National Curriculum)

The teaching of Music enables children develops the children as an individual, as well as a musician as it:

• Enhances listening skills 
• Develops the ability to concentrate
• Explores creativity
• Increases self confidence
• Develops ability to work as part of a group, whether that be a small group or the larger school community
• Aids memory
• Increases coordination