At Heathbrook, music is a vital and valued part of our broad and balanced curriculum. Taught by our full time, specialist music teacher in our stunning, well equipped music room, our music education is designed to be inclusive, engaging, and inspiring for all pupils from Nursery to Year 6. We are committed to offering enriching experiences and ensuring equal access to music for all pupils.

We believe every child deserves a musical education, one that nurtures individual talent and develops musical aptitude. We place music at the heart of our bespoke community curriculum, recognising it as a powerful creative and social art form that should be enjoyed by all. Music not only brings joy, but also supports wider learning through skills such as listening, rhythm, coordination, cooperation, and confidence-building.

From Nursery upwards, children:

• are taught to sing and perform a wide repertoire of songs
• listen to and appreciate various genres
• learn about the history of music
• have lots of opportunities to compose and perform, using both tuned and untuned instruments.

Above all, we aim to cultivate a lifelong love of music, where every child can succeed, express themselves, and find joy through their musical journey.

To find out more, read our Intent, Implementation and Impact statement.

Lead School Status – we have recently obtained Lead School Status by Lambeth Music Services, which recognises the importance that Heathbrook places on creative education, especially music.

Instrumental Lessons

All children have access to playing a musical instrument through their whole class ensemble teaching from year 2 onwards. In addition, we offer a range of instrumental lessons, which are very popular and take place during the school day. These are taught by peripatetic teachers from within and outside of school and includes; violin, guitar, flute, clarinet, trumpet and keyboard.

Singing

Singing is an important part of our school lives. Children take part in weekly singing assemblies, sing as part of class routines, take part in infant and junior choir and have the opportunity to sing out of school in prestigious venues such as the Royal Festival Hall and Royal Albert Hall.

CHOIR (yrs 5/6) – Please click on link for Lambeth singing concert material – youtube sing-a-long videos

Performances

At Heathbrook, we offer a rich variety of performance opportunities throughout the year, allowing children to share and celebrate their talents. Highlights include:

• Our annual Fringe Festival, which showcases creativity across the arts,
• Learning celebrations, where each year group presents their topic work through performance and presentation.
• Our Winter concert, Magical Moments – a themed musical production.
• Summer concert, our annual musical showcase brings together the talents of our orchestra, choir, ensembles and soloists—reflecting the vibrant and inclusive musical culture we foster throughout the school.

Rolling Brook, our school band, made up of children from Year5&6 and have regular gigs at the Clapham Lights event and the Lambeth Country Show, with Lambeth Sounds (Lambeth Music Services).

Enrichment

We endeavour to give the children as many opportunities to see and take part in musical events as possible. We take part in the Lambeth Music Festival, Lambeth Country Show, BrightSparks concerts, Primary Proms and as an associate school, we take part in events at the Southbank Centre. We nurture partnerships with our local arts organisations, such as, Lambeth Music Services, St Paul’s opera and the Omnibus theatre.

There are a variety of extra curricular musical activities carried out by our music specialist including; percussion club, choirs for infants and juniors, songwriting club, orchestra and our school band, Rolling Brook.

Music Technology

We inspire creativity through digital tools like Soundtrap and Chrome Music Lab and promote collaborative composition in group settings.