Our Music curriculum at Rhodes Avenue aims to engage and inspire all pupils to develop a love of music; creating passionate, informed and confident musicians.
We have an ambitious and rich curriculum covering both the national curriculum and the Model Music Curriculum across Key stage 1 and 2.
At Rhodes Avenue, we endeavour to create a personalised music curriculum that inspires and stretches our children. We have a building block approach allowing the children to build on their prior knowledge from the previous year and key stage. Skills are taught in progression throughout key stage 1 and 2. They build on the early learning goals of exploration and investigation allowing the children to make a more informed choice regarding musical elements.
Model Music Curriculum Skills and Knowledge maps
Specialist teaching
We as a school are very lucky to have specialist teaching within the music department. Alongside their in class music sessions taught by the class teacher the children will receive whole class instruments lessons delivered by either Dan Shafran or Joanne McGahon. In Year 1, the children will learn the glockenspiels. In year 2, the children will learn the recorder. In year 3, the children will learn the ukulele. In year 4, 5 and 6, the children will consolidate skills taught previously and will learn the keyboard. These specialist teaching sessions really expose the children to music in practice. They help to prepare the children for the next key stage using staff notation and composing independently preparing upper KS2 children for the KS3 curriculum.
Music council
Children in year 5 and 6 are invited to apply to be part of our music council. We encourage these applications to be from children who engage in music in the wider curriculum at Rhodes Avenue. Here, the children can express their ideas for the music curriculum and present ideas for trips, visitors and enrichment experiences.
School music development plan
Here, you can find our music development plan and our aims for the next academic year.
Extra curricular
Alongside the teaching that happens within the classroom we also have a huge range of extra curricular activities that support our musicians here at school. These sessions are run by the staff at Rhodes Avenue and are very well attended. This is a chance for children to have an even further, deeper experience of the music Curriculum.
Orchestra (Y4-Y6)
Wednesday 14:15
Leaders: Mr. Dan Shafran
Location: Witham Hall
Boy Band (Y4-Y6)
Tuesday 8:50
Leader: Mr. Clarence Ng
Location: Sports Hall
Chamber Choir (Y5 & Y6)
Wednesday: 8:00am
Leaders: Ms. Joanne McGahon and Mr. Dan Shafran
Location: Music Room
Junior Choir (Y4-6)
Tuesday 8:00
Leaders: Ms. Joanne McGahon and Mr. Dan Shafran
Location: Sports Hall
Infant Choir (1 & Y2)
Friday 12:45 pm
Leaders: Ms. Sophie Papworth
Location: Squirrel class
Year 3 Choir
Thursday 12:45 pm
Leaders: Ms. Nina Watson
Location: Rowan Class
Music Tuition
Haringey Council Children’s Services Music and Performing Arts Centre offer an excellent music tuition service. Parents are invited to apply for music tuition for their child in an instrument of their choice and when available a tutor comes to school to deliver 20 or 30 minute lessons. Currently at Rhodes Avenue School recorder, piano, cello, flute, trumpet and guitar teachers come to the school each week. The children are withdrawn from their class lessons for the duration of the music lesson.
Application forms are available from the school office, and there is also a scheme for assisted purchase of instruments. For more information regarding music tuition contact:
MPAC
Music and Performing Arts Centre
Rectory gardens
Hornsey, London
N8 7QN
Boy Band Recording in Birmingham
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Year 3 Choir at Alexandra Palace Secondary School
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Rhodes Avenue at Crouch End Festival Chorus
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