At Homerswood Primary and Nursery School we are proud of our Music curriculum across the school from Nursery to Year 6. 

Music @ Homerswood

Follow the link below for more information on our music curriculum and music news. 

It is well recognised that music ignites all areas of child development and skills, including intellectual, social-emotional, motor, language and overall Literacy. It can also help to develop the skills, attitudes and attributes that can support learning in other national curriculum subjects, developing the ability to think in patterns and pictures.

 At Homerswood children will gain a firm understanding of what music is through listening, singing, playing, evaluating, analysing and composing across a wide variety of historical periods, styles, traditions and musical genres. We encourage children to participate in a variety of musical experiences through which we aim to build up the confidence of all children. Our teaching focuses on developing the children’s ability to sing in tune and with other people. Through singing songs, children learn about the structure and organisation of music.

We also teach the children to listen and to appreciate different forms of music. Here they can develop descriptive skills when learning about how music can represent feelings and emotions. We are committed to ensuring children understand the value and importance of music in the wider community and are able to use their musical skills, knowledge and experiences to involve themselves in music, in a variety of different contexts.

Music at Homerswood is an exciting and engaging part of the curriculum. Children experience a rich and broad range of musical lessons during their time here. Highlights include a performance each year, a weekly singing assembly, a large and talented choir (extra-curricular) and whole class guitar lessons in Year 4. The choir has taken part in ‘Voice in a Million’ events which have created magical memories for all involved.

Concerts such as the Nativity (Nursery to Year 2), The Spring Soiree (Years 3 and 4) and the Summer Production (Year 5 and 6) provide all children with a fantastic opportunity to learn about performance. Our more able and talented singers and musicians can experience solos, duets or small choir songs and our budding actors and actresses have the opportunities to take lead and supporting roles to broaden their experiences and build their confidence.

For those children without a love of singing, dancing or acting; creative talents are channelled instead into performance support. Here children take sole responsibility for lighting, sound and technical assistance. This not only ensures the full participation of all children but also builds skills and knowledge and has unearthed some truly gifted engineers!

If your child has a musical talent that we have not yet discovered, please do let us know!

We had a real life rock musician visit our school from https://www.rocksteadymusicschool.com/ He gave us our very own private concert. He sang all the songs we know well and we joined in and 'banged' our heads to the beat! Great fun! We enjoyed it so much we might see if we can set up our own rock band. Thank you to Mrs Manly our Music Subject Leader for organising this special experience.

Year 6 visit Hatfield House for a Chamber Concert

Year 6 visited Hatfield House by train yesterday morning to listen to a chamber orchestra. It was a lovely morning and the children appreciated the new experience; we were waltzing, playing air violin and just enjoying the lovely music played by the very talented musicians.

Monks Walk Community Carol Concert

Homerswood Choir attended the Christmas Concert at St John's Church in collaboration with other school and community choirs. Two great Homerswood Performances were enjoyed by the audience and a lovely 'O Holy Night' performance by all the choirs combined. Well done!  You can view the performance of 'O Holy Night' at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvQm25UBCsc&feature=youtu.be&safe=active

Music Assembly

Our talented musicians played in front of a large audience and showed how far they have progressed and how wonderfully confident they are at playing their instruments.  We had recitals from all year groups playing the recorder, piano and violin.