Music lead: Mary Croker

At St Augustine’s Catholic Primary School, we aim to engage, motivate, and inspire all our pupils to develop a love of music and their talent as a musician, and so increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement. Music permeates all aspects of our school life as we grow together.

We use Charanga's  Creative Music Scheme to inspire our pupils. The Charanga scheme provides us with quality and engaging music lessons with careful progression built in.   Lessons are taught weekly by class teachers, many of whom play instruments or sing themselves and ukulele lessons for all year 4 children are taught by a visiting specialist peripatetic teacher each week for the whole year. This is funded by Arts Council England via Kent Music Education hub.  Singing is also often used in other subjects to aid learning particularly in the Foundation Stage and Key Stage One.

Music Lessons

All children are actively encouraged and given the opportunity to learn to play a musical instrument, from standard classroom instruments to individual instrumental lessons with our visiting peripatetic staff; Make Time for Music and Mrs Martin. 

Parents can choose to pay for additional lessons for their children through Make Time For Music. Children can have individual or small group lessons on:

• guitar
• ukulele
• piano
• violin

Harp with Mrs Martin: plinkplonkharp@hotmail.co.uk

There are also many musical opportunities in school for all pupils:

• weekly class music lessons for one hour a week
• group ukulele lessons for every year four pupil for a year on Friday afternoons (funded)
• recorder club (Years 3-6)
• KS2 choir (Years 3-6)
• whole school singing sessions
• Year 6 Musical
• Nativities for EYFS and KS1

Children can also take part in music outside of school through Kent Music Kent-Music Centre

• West-Kent-Junior-Voices
• West-Kent-Music-Lab
• West Kent Summer School

The Kent Music Financial Assistance Scheme is available for children and young people aged 5 – 18 years, living in Kent and attending a school in Kent.

Kent Music believe music is for everyone, and that cost shouldn’t be a barrier. As such they can provide financial assistance to support learning for young people.

Kent-Music Financial-Assistance

We perform outside of our school environment with other children and take part in the Tunbridge Wells Beginner’s Recorder Festival, Tunbridge Wells Singing Festival and Young Voices at the O2 Arena in London.