Music

Welcome to the music page of our website. My name is Mrs McGuigan and I am the music lead here at school. At Riddlesden we are passionate about music so we ensure our curriculum is exciting, engaging and innovative. We are raising musical aspirations and inspiring pupils to pursue musical opportunities should they choose to. We are lucky enough to have our own music studio where children can immerse themselves in everything musical during their lessons, with a variety of instruments at their fingertips.

In the words of Louis Armstrong "Music is life itself"

Our music curriculum is designed to incorporate 3 main areas, they are:

Curriculum music
Instrumental and vocal lessons and ensembles
Musical events and opportunities

Although our music curriculum is bespoke to us we are guided by the National Curriculum, The Nation Plan for Music Education and The Music Model Curriculum.

We work closely with the West Yorkshire Music Hub taking advantage of participating in various performances both vocally and instrumentally across the year as well as having Mr Barber an amazing music teacher from music services one day a week in school teaching guitars and an innovative new digital music programme with our year 6 children.

Music Hub information - https://www.bradfordmusiconline.co.uk/site/

Our local Music Hub offer tuition for lots of instruments and opportunities if you would like your child to have some additional music lessons. There is a wide range of instruments available to learn and the peri teacher will visit in the school day to carry these out.

Clink the link below for more information.

https://ukbradfordmusic.speedadmin.dk/registration#/

Here at Riddlesden we have our very own bespoke music studio that allows our children to fully immerse themselves in music surrounded by all the instruments they could need. As well as teaching our music curriculum in here we also offer a number of wider curriculum music experiences in here.

Autumn Term

Our adults have been busy training with the Royal Ballet and Opera House learning how we can teach dance in a musically creative way, using powerful stories, music and movement to create a sequence of movements. Take a look below at some of the photos taken during our Saturday training day.

Riddlesden St Mary

Riddlesden St Mary's
Primary School & Nursery

Riddlesden St Mary's
Primary School & Nursery

Music

Music Hub information - https://www.bradfordmusiconline.co.uk/site/

Foundation Strategy:

Yearly overview:

Music progression document:

Adaptive teaching in music:

Autumn Term

Spring term

Summer Term