Music
Music Mark 2025-2026
Totley All Saints have been awarded the Music Mark for a consecutive year. This is in recognition for our inclusive, accessible and high quality music education across the school.
Music/Music-Mark-of-Recognition-for-Dedication-and-Improvement.pdf
Our Vision for Music:
At our school, we know that music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity. A high-quality musical education will engage and inspire pupils to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians, and so increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement. As children progress through the curriculum, they will develop a critical engagement with music, allowing them to perform, compose, and to listen with discrimination to the best in the musical canon. We are committed to children developing a lifelong appreciation of all genres of music and experience the positive affect music can have, underpinned by professional live music experiences to engage and inspire.
Our Curriculum reflects the ethos and aims of the school as well as the context from which our children derive. This means that our curriculum provides the necessary building blocks to develop the necessary Musical knowledge and skills, whilst also promoting British Values, healthy lifestyles and mental well-being, plus excellent behaviour and attitudes. It is underpinned with a large emphasis on SMSC development, a strong practical outworking for others in line with our Christian ethos, whilst also building character and readiness for the next stages of education and the learning journey beyond.
Totley All Saints Music Development Plan
Learning Experience: What is the breadth of experience provided for our children?
- Quality First teaching: variety of teaching styles, varied stimulus, specialist piano, guitar, woodwind teachers.
- Quality Resources: Sparkyard (online & interactive scheme of work), Sheffield Music Hub WOPS (cornets) & Sheffield Music Hub Music Leader (Mathew Knowles)
- Visits: Live Music, Music in the Round, performances at the Crucible Theatre, Halle Orchestra children’s concert at the Sheffield City Hall and Young Voices
- Visitors: Music in the Round musicians. Sheffield Music Hub live music experiences.
- Experiences: Performing musically at local venues as well as Young Voices Sheffield Arena, and productions at school. Peripatetic performances to parents and other classes throughout the year including drums, cornets, piano and guitar.
- Inclusive school choir taught by experienced musician and projects with the local community.
- Extra Curricular Clubs for children from Reception right the way up to Y6.
Readiness for Next Stage of Education: How does this subject prepare our children for the next stage of their educational journey at secondary school & beyond?
We endeavour to provide a high quality, sequential curriculum where all children have the opportunity to progress and succeed. We aim for out teaching of music to have a great impact on all of our children; not only creatively, but also for the next stages of their education. We want all children to be able to move to secondary school, not only having been taught the National Curriculum but having the experience of learning a range of instruments, singing, performing and being able to read basic Musical Notation.
