Chowbent Primary School Never be less than your best
Music
Music Policy
Progression of music skills and knowledge
MUSIC SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2024-25
COMPOSERS AND MUSICIANS OF THE HALF TERM: THREE YEAR CYCLE (2024- 2026)
COMPOSERS AND MUSICIANS OF THE YEAR 2023-2024
COMPOSERS AND MUSICIANS OF THE YEAR 2024-2025
COMPOSERS AND MUSICIANS OF THE YEAR 2025-2026
MUSICAL PERIODS 
Key Stage 1 'Music Club'
Playing 'High, high, low, rest' patterns on the chime bars.
Key Stage 1 'Music Club'
WIDER OPPORTUNITIES JULY 2024
Our Year 4 children have enjoyed a year of learning to play musical instruments, taught by a specialist music teacher. The children have had experience of improvising, singing and performing throughout their weekly music lessons.
MORE WIDER OPPORTUNITIES - JULY 2024
'MUSIC ALIVE' PERFORMANCE
WIGAN MUSIC SERVICES - MUSIC ALIVE!
WHOLE SCHOOL ASSEMBLY: FRIDAY 7TH JUNE 2024
We welcomed the 'Music Alive' string quintet to our school to perform live music for our whole school audience.
We learned that:
* All of the string instruments have 4 strings
* A string quintet often features two violins, a viola, a cello and a double bass
* The larger the string instrument, the lower the notes that can be played.
The string quintet performed popular music from the films; 'Willy Wonka', 'Harry Potter' and 'Pirates of the Caribbean'. We also listened to music written by composers from earlier eras, such as Vivaldi and
Saint Saens.
We thoroughly enjoyed our live music experience and it has certainly inspired some of us to want to learn to play instruments in the future.
MORE FROM 'MUSIC ALIVE'
EVEN MORE FROM 'MUSIC ALIVE'
YOUNG VOICES FEBRUARY 2024
Manchester AO Arena
YOUNG VOICES FEBRUARY 2024
Manchester AO Arena
ROCKSTEADY MUSIC ASSEMBLY
ROCKSTEADY MUSIC: 10th October 2023
We have all enjoyed a morning of live music!
Jacob, from Rocksteady, came to visit our school to teach us about different instruments:
* vocals
* electric guitar
* acoustic guitar
* drumkit
* keyboard
We listened to him performing music on each instrument and enjoyed singing along to the rock and pop songs.
MORE FROM ROCKSTEADY
ROCKSTEADY
ROCKSTEADY
ROCKSTEADY MUSIC ASSEMBLY
Even some of our teachers joined Jacob's rockband today. Miss Macdonald was playing the bass guitar, Miss Lee played the keyboard and Mrs Taylor was the drummer.
What a fun time our children and staff had learning about musical instruments and listening to live music today!
�� MUSIC ALIVE �� WHOLE SCHOOL CONCERT
MUSIC ALIVE! WHOLE SCHOOL ASSEMBLY
15th June 2023
It was a musical morning here at Chowbent today!
We had �� Music Alive, �� performing jazz music for everyone. Here are some of the different styles of jazz that they performed for us:
1) Dixieland jazz
2) Swing
3) Bebop jazz
4) Cool jazz
The musicians played a trumpet, trombone and saxophone. This was the horn section. The rhythm section included musicians playing the electric piano, electric bass guitar and drum kit.
Please click on the attached 3 videos to listen to some of the jazz music which was performed by �� Music Alive �� today.
RECEPTION MUSIC LESSONS 
RECEPTION MUSIC LESSONS 
RECEPTION MUSIC LESSONS 
RECEPTION MUSIC LESSONS 
RECEPTION MUSIC LESSONS
We composed our own melody, using the �� Big Bear Funk �� backing track. We used the notes C and D and even tried to play our composition on the chime bars too.
We hope that you enjoy listening to our composition!
RECEPTION PERFORMING
RECEPTION CHIME BARS AND BEATERS
YEAR 1 MUSIC LESSONS 
YEAR 1 GRAPHIC NOTATION
YEAR 1 MUSIC LESSONS 
YEAR 2 MUSIC LESSONS 
YEAR 2 MUSIC LESSONS 
YEAR 2 MUSIC LESSONS 
YEAR 3 MUSIC LESSONS 
YEAR 3 MUSIC LESSONS 
WIDER OPPORTUNITIES: YEAR 4
We are very privileged at Chowbent Primary School to have the opportunity to take part in the Wider Opportunities Programme which enables children in Year 4 to access music tuition for a year led by specialist musicians at Wigan Music Service.
Our Year 4 children have been learning how to play African drums and percussion instruments and have developed skills in reading music, rhythm, listening and appreciation, composition and singing, along with technical mastery of their instrument.
Our school have funded the Wider Opportunities Programme for many years now and we have seen a significant rise in self confidence, self control and enjoyment through the years as the children learn what it takes to become a musician.
We regularly invite parents into school to watch concerts to showcase what all of our Year 4 children have learnt over the year. We have some very talented musicians in our school!
YEAR 5 COMPOSITIONS
YEAR 5 COMPOSITIONS 
YEAR 5 PERFORMANCE: SINGING
Year 5 performing 'Look Into The Night' for our Reception class audience.
YEAR 5 PERFORMANCE: PLAYING THE GLOCKENSPIELS
Year 5 performing 'Look Into The Night' for our Reception class audience.
YEAR 5 PERFORMANCE: SINGING
Year 5 performing 'Look Into The Night' for our Reception class audience.