Every term, all pupils are offered performance opportunities. At Christmas, all pupils take part in their Key Stage Christmas Show. In Spring Term, we host a whole-school Spring Showcase, performing song, poetry, drama and dance to our Sutton families.
In addition to this, our weekly choir club are offered a plethora of opportunities. Examples include Young Voices, G4 at Christmas, Voces8, Sing, choir, sing! and Sing the Celebration with Laura Wright, as well as school assemblies, community coffee mornings and fundraising events.Â
Life through the Lens of Music:Â This blog post highlights the importance of music education and exposure that is valued by all staff at Sutton Primary Academy.
At Sutton, we celebrate ‘Musician of the Month’.Â
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Musician Of The Month aims to help “create a culture of musical appreciation and understanding.” It covers a variety of classical composers, popular artists and musical traditions. Each month we focus on one artist listening to and appraising their music and finding out about the composer/artist/tradition. Each week, we listen to a new song by that month’s artist in our assemblies and classroom music celebrations. This year, we are following Cycle A.
Matthew Dix, founder of Musician of the Month, has written an interesting read on why every child should have the opportunity to be a musician.Â
Children are taught to use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes.
They listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music, and also experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music
Children are taught to sing and play musically with increasing confidence and control. They will develop an understanding of musical composition, organising and manipulating ideas within musical structures and reproducing sounds from aural memory. There will be opportunities to record their compositions using musical notation.
They will also appreciate and understand a wide range of music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians, developing an understanding of the history of music.
Children have the opportunity to join the school choir, play a musical instrument and be involved in musical community links.
Email
admin@sutton.hmfa.org.uk
Office Contact
Mrs L Board
Phone
01432 880336
Address
Sutton Primary Academy
Bayley Way
Sutton St. Nicholas
Hereford
HR1 3SZ
