MUSIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN SUMMARY
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ACHIEVE - LEARN - FLOURISH
The Aspire Learning Federation is made up of two schools - Elm Park Primary School and R J Mitchell Primary School in the London Borough of Havering.
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All schools should have a music development plan from academic year 2023-24. Schools are expected to publish a summary of their plan on their website from academic year 2024-25. This template is designed to support schools to produce the summary. It should set out how the school will deliver high-quality music provision in curriculum music, co-curricular music and musical experiences, taking into account the key features in the national plan for music education:
The summary should reflect your school’s music provision for the given school year and your plans for subsequent years. It should also refer to any existing partnership with your local music hub or other music education organisations that supports the school with music provision. Before publishing your completed summary, delete the advice in this template along with this text box. |
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Academic year that this summary covers |
2025-2026 |
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Date this summary was published |
September 2025 |
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Date this summary will be reviewed |
July 2026 |
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Name of the school music lead |
Rumbi Mbirimi |
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Name of school leadership team member with responsibility for music (if different) |
Rumbi Mbirimi |
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Name of local music hub |
Havering music hub |
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Name of other music education organisation(s) (if partnership in place) |
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This is a summary of how our school delivers music education to all our pupils across three areas – curriculum music, co-curricular provision and musical experiences – and what changes we are planning in future years. This information is to help pupils and parents or carers understand what our school offers and who we work with to support our pupils’ music education.
Part A: Curriculum music
This is about what we teach in lesson time, how much time is spent teaching music and any music qualifications or awards that pupils can achieve.
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RJ Mitchell Primary school follows the CUSP Music curriculum which is supported by SingUp. We also follow the national curriculum for Music. This scheme is designed to build pupils’ musical knowledge and develop their competency and confidence as musicians. Each block includes the study of significant musicians and musical works, with the intention of exposing pupils to a wide range of music that will inspire them and connect them to the world around them. . It also contains the key vocabulary and key knowledge that children need to be taught so that they can become skilled musicians. At the start of each unit, there is an outline which states which key skills and topics will be taught in all year groups. This enables teachers to see what children have been taught previously and what they need to know before they progress to the next year group. The curriculum is built to support non-specialist teachers in developing their own subject knowledge and delivering excellence in music education. Core areas of study include singing, listening and appraising, composing and improvising and instrumental performance. These are built cumulatively throughout the curriculum to ensure that all pupils develop their engagement with, and knowledge of, music over time. This includes a focus on learning to play a range of instruments confidently. CUSP Music aims to build a strong and rich musical culture in schools, in which pupils can thrive. There is an expectation that music is for all – this includes those children with SEND. Alongside other subjects, every half term, parents are given a curriculum letter which lists which skills and topics the children will be taught that term. We aim to teach Music for a minimum of 45 minutes a week, as well as other opportunities to sing or play together through cross curricular opportunities with other subjects in the curriculum. We also have 8 singing assemblies throughout the year, as well as a weekly listen and appraise assembly that uses music from the Model Music Curriculum. We also have a school choir who perform at young voices each year. They also perform at the Christmas concert. Children in EYFS will have the opportunity to experiment with percussion instruments and boomwhackers as part of their musical learning through whole class ensemble teaching. Children in Year 1 and 2 will have the opportunity to experiment with percussion instruments and chime bars as part of their musical learning through whole class ensemble teaching. Children in Year 3 and 4 will have the opportunity to experiment with percussion instruments and glockenspiels as part of their musical learning through whole class ensemble teaching. Children in Year 5 and 6 will have the opportunity to experiment with percussion instruments and chime bars as part of their musical learning through whole class ensemble teaching. |
Part B: Extra-curricular music
This is about opportunities for pupils to sing and play music, outside of lesson time, including choirs, ensembles and bands, and how pupils can make progress in music beyond the core curriculum.
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At RJ Mitchell primary school, we have a school choir which are free to join and taught by members of school staff as an after school club. The Key Stage Two choir perform annually at the Young Voices concert at the O2 arena and at the Havering Music School Summer Festival. They also perform at our school Christmas and summer fetes. In Autumn term, we have a musical theatre club who perform their creations at the school’ annual Christmas concert. |
Part C: Musical experiences
This is about all the other musical events and opportunities that we organise, such as singing in assembly, concerts and shows, and trips to professional concerts.
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Every class performs a special assembly to parents once a year. which includes singing and/or playing of musical instruments. EYFS and Year 1 each perform a play at Christmas which includes singing. Year 2 perform a Christmas Nativity in December which includes singing and percussion instruments. KS2 perform a Christmas Carol concert in December, which is a mix of classical Christmas Hymns and Christmas pop songs. Year 6 perform a musical production in July. During Black History month, children are given the opportunity to look at the historical significance of African/American music genres and create performances which are recorded and shared with parents.
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In the future
This is about what the school is planning for subsequent years.
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In future years, our Music Development plan aims to achieve the following:
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Further information (optional)
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Use this space to provide any further information about your school’s music development plan, including links to your local music hub partners, other local music education organisations and contacts. The Department for Education publishes a guide for parents and young people on how they can get involved in music in and out of school, and where they can go to for support beyond the school. Your local music hub should also have a local plan for music education in place from September 2024 that should include useful information. If your school is part of a multi-academy trust with a trust-wide music development plan, you may also want to include a link to any published information on this plan. |