At Alderman Cogan’s we want to give all our children the best possible start in life academically, as citizens and as lifelong learners. Above all, we want them to be highly literate and able to have all the learning necessary to help them to thrive in a complex, changing and competitive world.
We want all our students to be ambitious for themselves and about their futures. We will provide the pathways and support for them to realise their ambitions, ‘through a Christian lens’. At Alderman Cogan’s CE Primary Academy our high-quality music education is designed to engage and inspire pupils to develop a love of music and bring out their talents as musicians and so we hope to increase their self-confidence, creativity and a sense of achievement. Our aim, through musical education, is to foster a love of music, instruments and performance, by giving every child an opportunity to find their passion for music. We want to show children the opportunities in the wider world, whether this be to have music as a passion or even a future career, the possibilities are endless. Our EYFS and KS1 curriculum is delivered through Charanga. All children at KS2 are taught weekly by a specialist from Hull music service this is in addition to our extensive extra curricular offer.
The school has developed a progression adapted around Charanga’s scheme for the Model Music Curriculum follows a differentiated, spiral approach to musical learning which responds to the national requirements for musical education. Within each unit of learning, students revisit existing knowledge and skills and then build upon and extend them incrementally. In this manner, learning is consolidated and augmented, allowing for increasing musical confidence, while constantly being gently challenged to go further.
