From September 2024, Arnold Mill have started following the Sing Up scheme of music. Previously, children were taught using the Charanga scheme of music. We hope that by switching to Sing Up, we will increase our children's enjoyment and depth of knowledge in music.

What is Sing Up’s intention for Sing Up Music?

Sing Up aims for every child to have access to high-quality, practical, and engaging musical experiences through our pupil and teacher resources.
We want all children to develop the self-confidence, skills, knowledge, and understanding to develop a lifelong love of music, whilst also providing a secure foundation that enables them to take music further should they wish to. With each unit and every lesson plan, our aim is to provide great teaching resources and clear delivery guidance that saves teachers time, supports their subject knowledge, and gives them confidence in teaching music practically.
Sing Up Music is designed and written by subject specialists. It sets out the skills, knowledge, and understanding to be gained by all pupils at each stage of learning, including the Early Years Foundation Stage. Sing Up units represent are a library of resources that meet the requirements of the National Curriculum for Music, the suggested approaches of the Model Music Curriculum, as well as the Statutory Framework for Early Years Foundation Stage and Music Development Matters. We also believe that a music curriculum should draw on a broad range of musical traditions, using authentic songs and materials, and have followed this approach when creating Sing Up Music.

Extra-curricular opportunities

• Recorder club
• Choir club
• Xylophone club
• Guitar lessons
• Piano lessons

We have discontinued drumming lessons due to low sign-up numbers. We review extra-curricular music lessons from outside providers yearly and we aim to offer lessons when there is significant interest. 

Trips

For the past two year Arnold Mill has run a trip in the Summer term to see the Hallé orchestra at the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham. The children enjoyed the trip and we hope to run it again in the coming years.