Music is an important part of the curriculum at Mercenfeld Primary School. We support our lessons with the Leicestershire Music scheme. This helps to provide clear progression of musical skills from EYFS to Year 6, ensuring that knowledge builds systematically over time and encourages children to work independently and collaboratively, deepening their technical and expressive skills through regular music‑making.
The children learn to perform, listen to, review and evaluate music from a wide range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions, including works by major classical composers and contemporary musicians. This is developed through opportunities to perform, compose, listen and understand the inter‑related dimensions of music which are woven together across six progressive units.
Children at Mercenfeld learn to use their voices confidently when singing, create and compose music both independently and collaboratively, explore musical instruments and use technology appropriately. They develop an understanding of how music is created, produced and communicated through key musical elements such as pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notation.
Beyond curriculum lessons, the children further develop their musicianship through a school choir, instrumental lessons delivered by external specialists and opportunities to perform in concerts and school productions. Children in years 4 and 5 also receive whole‑class brass instrumental teaching from specialist teachers from the Leicestershire Schools Music Hub throughout the year.