At Greyfriars Academy we offer a mixed provision for music. As a school we are moving into the Kapow scheme, which we have chosen as it teaches composition as well as performance and music recognition.

We are lucky to have a peripatatic professional, Ms Berners, (a.k.a Miss Music!) who leads the performance aspect of Y3/4, and this year we have had considerable success at regional level with Music for Youth, and we are through to National level at Birmingham. We also performed at the Norfolk Show, having performed at the Corn Exchange in King’s Lynn earlier in the year. The group is currently playing Ukuleles, Ocarinas, Boomwakers, sticks, spoons, and buckets!

We have recently performed a 30 minute set at the Royal Norfolk Show as part of the Norfolk Music Hub.  We expanded our repetoire to include spoons, which the children enjoyed.

2025-2026 years reception 1 and 2 will also be taking a term of lessons from Miss Berners to lay the foundations of instrumental use and musical understanding.

All years aside from Y6 produce a Christmas performance, and Y6 give us an end of year spectacular, last years being a fantastic version of ‘Shakespeare Rocks’, giving us a musical run through of the life of William Shakespeare Esq. This year our year 5 and 6 children performed The X Factory. 

In the past we have worked with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightment, and we are currently part of Classical Music Rocks, which the children really enjoy as it gives them chance to be up close to ‘real’ musicians.  This year we have had cello, harp, piano and singers.

This year we have started our music club, which is led by the children’s interests.  We have learned about body percussion, singing and now we have just started to learn the recorder, although every sessions starts with the boomwackers!  The intent of the club is to encourage all children in some kind of musical development, at their own pace and following a group interest, and we have from Reception to year 6 in our membership.

As a school, we choose to celebrate and commemorate, which this year meant that we performed wartime songs to parents on VE80.  Each year group learned a poem and a song, and we had two songs that we sang.  We were thrilled to see so many parents come to watch and listen, and the comments and smiles afterwards made all the hard work worthwhile.

Music at Greyfriars is active and thriving, and we encourage all children to use an instrument, whether that is an actual instrument, their voice, or just some body percussion.

Music Subject Lead Miss Cook  scook@grf@unity-ed.uk