Highcliffe St Mark Primary School 

Music Vision Statement 

At Highcliffe St Mark Primary School, our Music curriculum strives to be ambitious, inclusive, and designed to ensure that every child develops a lifelong appreciation and passion for music.  Children are supported to perform, listen to, review, and evaluate music across a wide range of genres, styles, traditions, and cultures, developing an understanding of the role music plays within different societies.

Children are taught the fundamental elements of music, including rhythm, pitch, tempo, dynamics, structure, and notation, enabling them to build secure musical knowledge and apply music theory to support their development as confident performers and composers. Through carefully planned and progressive opportunities to compose, improvise, and perform, pupils develop creativity, resilience, and self-confidence.

Singing is at the heart of our music curriculum. Pupils sing regularly in class, developing vocal technique, expression, and ensemble skills. Performance opportunities are embedded throughout the year, including parent assemblies and whole-school events such as Carols by Torchlight, allowing pupils to perform to an audience.

Every child will have the chance to learn an instrument at our school, whether in their music lessons or through the wide range of additional opportunities we offer. Our professional music teachers provide a more individualised approach to teaching and enhance the knowledge and skills children have already gained from their class lessons.