Please take a look at our Music Development Plan for 2024-2025:

Music is a unique way of communicating that can inspire and motivate children. It reflects culture and society and so the teaching and learning of music enables children to appreciate the world in which they live. Music brings people together and helps children to feel part of a community.  It lays the foundations for a life-long skill that the children can take with them to Secondary School and beyond.     

The Music Curriculum: 

The objectives for Music are set out in the National Curriculum: 

Key Stage 1 

Pupils should be taught to: 

• use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants 
• play tuned and untuned instruments musically 
• listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music. 
• experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music. 

Key Stage 2 

Pupils should be taught to: 

• play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression 
• improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music 
• listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory 

• use and understand staff and other musical notations 
• appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians 
• develop an understanding of the history of music.

 Children in Y3 and Y4 enjoy weekly lessons over a term from NMPAT learning Samba drumming which culminates in an amazing performance!

We are thrilled that our school has won a Silver School Games Mark for 2023-2024.  Achieving this award is testament to the hard work by everyone at school and its commitment to providing meaningful physical opportunities to all pupils at our school across the curriculum. 

At Staverton our mission is to provide high quality physical education and school sport to all children to encourage and prepare children to live a healthy, active lifestyle throughout their lives. We promote enjoyment, confidence and positive attitudes to sport through The School Games values system, recognising children for showing important life skills such as: teamwork, passion, determination, honesty, self-belief and respect.  Our curriculum aims to enable, develop and challenge children’s abilities in a range of physical activities and sports to build their personal fitness, understanding of fair play and a healthy sense of competition.

PE at Staverton is taught as an area of learning in its own right, as well as being integrated in our Active Learning environment. All children undertake two sessions of PE per week following our Get Set 4 PE Scheme. In KS2, children also undertake swimming lessons, working towards the three national curriculum outcomes: safe self-rescue in a range of water-based situations, swim confidently and competently over 25 metres and to be able to use a range of strokes effectively.

Staverton Primary School is affiliated with Northamptonshire Sport, and as such is able to offer children from Year 1 to Year 6 the opportunity to take part in inter-school and intra-school competitions and access specialist coaching. As an inclusive school, we also enter SEND events in order to provide festival and competitive opportunities for all.

As part of Staverton’s commitment to PE, we run a range of afterschool sporting clubs, including clubs such as football, basketball and gymnastics, and lunchtime sports activities provided by specialist sports coaches and our fabulous Year 6 Sports Crew team. Staverton is also a proud member of the Daily Mile, which each class takes part in to boost both our physical and mental wellbeing.

 Sports and PE Long Term Map 2024-2025

 Sports Premium Impact Report 2023-2024