In order to provide a broad and rich music curriculum for our children we subsidise additional musical tuition through Durham Music Service. They are able to complement our existing curriculum by helping children develop required musical techniques in order to achieve end of Key Stage expectations. Durham Music Service has been a fundamental part of our music curriculum for the last 10 years and we work closely with them to ensure we are providing a consistent and valuable musical education for our children.
They work closely with all year groups across the school and provide instrument tuition, vocal skills and composition expertise at no additional cost to our parents/carers.
For the academic year 2021-2022 Durham Music Service will work with every year group for a minimum of half a year:
- Reception – singing, boom whackers including improvisation
- Year 1 – singing, percussion, composing and improvising
- Year 2 – singing, percussion, composing and improvising
- Year 3 – singing, recorder tuition, composition and performing
- Year 4 – singing, recorder tuition, composition and performing
- Year 5 – brass tuition incorporating composition, improvisation and performing
- Year 6 – singing incorporating composition, improvisation and performing
At the end of each academic year, our Key Stage 2 children come together for a final performance, led by Durham Music Service, where they are able to showcase the skills they have acquired over the year to younger pupils of Reid Street and the parents/carers of those children in year 5.
