Our commitment to music:

Every child at RAMJS has a quality 1hr music lesson ever week. 

The learning is progressively planned and as a school we use and adapt Charanga/Out of The Ark/Sing Up to support our music teaching.  We love using Musician of the Month to enhance our musical knowledge about composers, artists and different genres of music.  These resources are combined to form the best teaching resources to suited to the needs of our children.

We have a wide range of musical instruments that are continually growing and include glockenspiels, keyboards, guitars and WAKATUBZ to name but a few.

Children are given the opportunity to sing individually, as a small group and as a whole school.  Singing is encouraged as we enter and leave our collective worship space and the song choices link to the aspects of the curriculum we have been covering.  Currently Year 4 take part in Lancashire Sings, a local event that enables our children and their families to enter a Preston based singing event without the financial implications of travelling to larger venues like Manchester.

Year 5 and 6 are exploring a new singing event being held in Blackpool which would enable our pupils to sing alongside The National Youth Orchestra. 

All these opportunities give our pupils the opportunity to perform, in front of a live audience and provide enrichment and enhancement of our musical curriculum.

Children have input into what they learn and this may be Pop Song adapted for our Harvest Assembly or bespoke Sea Shanties to link our literacy lesson to our music.

We have increased our musical resources so that we can deliver progressive music teaching that builds on skills from our previous year groups.