Music

Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they think and feel. If we are to hope for a society of culturally literate people, music must be a vital part of our children’s education.  (Yo-Yo Ma)

Our Music curriculum at Harris Rainham is built on a spiral model that ensures students are regularly revisiting instrumental skills and developing them incrementally over time.  

At the core of our ambitious curriculum is the opportunity for every student to find and develop their individual musical talents to the full. Practical musicianship is central to classroom learning, ensuring our students are consistently building skills authentically across the three main musical pillars of Performance, Listening/Appraising and Composition.

Powerful knowledge is led firstly by procedural knowledge through which we support the development of tacit and declarative knowledge. Our KS3 units are the vehicle through which we consistently revisit practical skills to ensure fluency of musicianship. 

At Harris Rainham, all students have the opportunity to access Music beyond KS3 - whether this be through choice of KS4 option, access to instrumental lessons and/or involvement in our co-curricular offer.