Music at Hope Community School

Music teaching at Hope Community School follows the specifications of the National Curriculum; providing a broad, balanced and differentiated curriculum. We aim to provide children with the opportunity to progress to the next level of their creative excellence.

Our pupils will learn that music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity (The National Curriculum). 

At Hope Community School, we believe that music plays an integral part in helping children feel part of a community. Therefore, we provide opportunities for children to create, perform and enjoy music both in class and to audiences in the wider community. We are committed to ensuring children understand the value and importance of music to their own and others’ lives and wellbeing and also the impact music has in the wider community. 

We intend to inspire musicians of the future and create a passion for music in all our children that will stay with them for a lifetime.

Our aims are to ensure all pupils:

• Perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions, including the works of the great composers and musicians  

• Learn to sing and to use their voices, to create and compose music on their own and with others, have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument, use technology appropriately and have the opportunity to progress to the next level of musical excellence.  

• Understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated, including through the inter-related dimensions: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations.

Musical Instrument Lessons

We have an external music teacher that provides weekly peripatetic music lessons for those that would like to do it. These lessons include piano and violin. These take place on a Wednesday afternoon. The pupils that attend these lessons love them and have an opportunity to take exams and be awarded certificates upon successful completion of them. We are very proud of their musical skills!

The Hope Choir

At Hope Community School, the Hope Choir meet to practice every Tuesday from 3.30-4.15pm. The Hope Choir is led by Mrs Rouse. They do half-termly performances for the local community and beyond! We have performed at the Bluewater 'Christmas Choirs' event, local care homes, local supermarkets and at New Generation Church. If your child would like to join the Hope Choir, please sign up on parentpay or speak with the school office.