At Firthmoor Primary School, we follow the Charanga English Model Music Curriculum Scheme. This is aligned with the National Curriculum for Music an the non-statutory Model Music Curriculum (MMC) Guidance published by the DfE In 2021. 

The program offers well organised units and lesson plans that follow a clear progression of learning. It adopts a spiral approach to music education, where students continuously revisit, expand, and build on their knowledge and skills step by step. This method helps strengthen and enhance their learning, boosting their confidence in music.

As they enter Key Stage 2, pupils access the Durham Music Service peripatetic teaching, where they learn to play the recorder and read basic notation.  We also access the Durham Music Service for small group violin teaching with children from year 4, 5 and 6, who learn to play individually and as part of a group. Some children go on to join Darlington Youth Orchestra and take their graded examinations with the Associated Board of Royal Schools of Music.

Assemblies, class and whole-school productions provide children with the opportunity to perform to an invited audience, whilst the school choir regularly entertains the residents of a local care home, and has performed several times at the Darlington Primary School’s ‘Eurovision’ contest.

Please see our Music curriculum below.