At Fernhurst Primary School, the children have weekly music lessons with school staff and there are opportunities to develop further musical skills by taking up one of the many offers from our specialist teachers to learn to play the piano, guitar, brass, drums and more. Each term, children can share in sharing assemblies and annually, those children with an interest in music are invited to join the choir at spectacular venues such as The O2 or the Royal Albert Hall to perform during their time at Fernhurst.

Music is taught weekly. 

Our pupils will form a music schema by using concepts as the basis for schema. We call these threshold concepts; these are the big ideas which form the basis for the subject schema. We will continually revisit these concepts throughout the entire curriculum, in every year group, in every music topic. In music the threshold concepts relate to:

• Singing
• Composing and performing
• The historical, social and cultural origins of music - contributing to the diversity of musical styles
• Playing instruments individually and as part of a group

Once a year children will take part in a musical performance.  During this term, music lessons will focus on the skills of performance as indicated on the RKE sheet sent home called 'What a performance'.