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07/10/25

Assembly with Toni the Cosplayer speaking about black illustrators and comic writers sharing his passion for creativity and representation in comics. 💥🦸🎨

03/10/25

An amazing food share to end a colourful cultural day. Thank you to all the families who took the time to share some of their amazing food and for helping to create such a buzz and sense of community. 🧑‍🍳🌟🥘🥙

01/10/25

🖤📚Celebrating the incredible educators who inspire us every day. Here are some of our amazing teachers making history during   

01/10/25

🖤📚Celebrating the incredible educators who inspire us every day. Here are some of our amazing teachers making history during   

01/10/25

🖤📚Celebrating the incredible educators who inspire us every day. Here are some of our amazing teachers making history during     

25/09/25

🎸 Times Tables Rock Stars results are in: •Peacock: 77% – shredding those tables like guitar solos 🤘 •Parrot: 66% – steady rhythm, solid groove 🥁 •Flamingo: 60% – still tuning up, but the comeback tour is coming 🎤

18/09/25

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15/09/25

Year 4 are turning up the volume on their times tables with Mrs Ahari-Qanah using Times Tables Rockstars! MTC prep has never looked so cool — we’re rocking our way to victory like true math legends! 💥🔥     

15/09/25

Congratulations to our stars of the week! We are so proud!❤️💙

17/06/25

🍭Year 6 Ice Lolly Sale 🍭 Wednesday 16th June at dismissal, Year 6 pupils will be selling ice lollies in the playground to help raise funds for their end-of-year celebrations.

07/06/25

Time for Team Tech!🧐❤️💪

07/06/25

We’ve had so much fun on Jacob’s ladder!🪜

07/06/25

First stop - 3G swing!!!

07/06/25

While the others were shelter building, we were problem solving🤔🕵️🕵️‍♀️

06/06/25

Relays on the field 🏃‍♀️

06/06/25

First stop-shelter building!⛺️

06/06/25

We’re off! Year 5 are so excited to arrive at Kingswood!💙❤️

04/06/25

📚 🥐 You are invited to our new event!! Join us for Reading on the roof terrace 🍎📚

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Music

At Harris Primary Academy Purley Way, we believe that music is a powerful and unique form of communication. Every pupil has the entitlement to a stimulating, fulfilling, informative and instructive musical curriculum. Music is a vehicle for expression and can provide support in children’s development. Furthermore, music allows us to celebrate the culture and society we live in and support tolerance of others’ opinions and beliefs.

 

Through our curriculum we want to provide children with opportunities to create, play, perform and enjoy music while developing the skills to appreciate a wide variety of musical forms and begin to judge the quality of music. We encourage children to participate in a wide variety of musical experiences to build up the confidence of all children. We firmly believe in the importance of singing in music lessons and as such it supports learning about the structure and organisation of music. It is of fundamental importance that children have the opportunity to access a range of extra-curricular music activities to support their musical development.

 

HF Curriculum Lead - Sam French

 

Group

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Spring 1

Spring 2

Summer 1

Summer 2

Year 1

Hey You!

  

Style: Old style hip-hop  

 

Rhythm in the way we walk/The Banana Rap

 

Style: Mixed Styles  

 

In the Groove 

 

Style: Mixed Styles

 

Round and Round 

 

Style: Latin and Mixed Styles 

 

Your imagination - Create your own lyrics 

 

Style: Mixed styles and listening to songs/music about using your imagination: 

 

Reflect, Rewind, Replay 

 

Style: Mixed styles 

 

Year 2

Hands, Feet, Heart 

 

Style: Music from South Africa, Freedom songs 

 

Ho, Ho, Ho! 

 

Style: Mixed styles: Winter time, festivals and Christmas time. Creating a performance using music and dance. 

 

I Wanna Play in a Band 

 

Style: Rock music and movement 

 

Zootime 

 

Style: Song structure Reggae music 

 

Friendship song 

 

Style: Mixed Styles 

 

Reflect, Rewind, Replay 

 

Style: Mixed styles 

 

Year 3

Let Your Spirit Fly 

 

Style: RnB. Singing in two parts. Mixed styles: 

 

Glockenspiel Stage 1 

 

Style: Playing the glockenspiel. The language of music. 

 

Three Little Birds 

 

Style: Reggae and Bob Marley. Reggae music: 

& Recorder

The Dragon Song 

 

Style: Singing in two parts. Music from around the world: 

 

Bringing Us Together 

 

Style: Disco music: 

 

Reflect, Rewind, Replay 

 

Style: Mixed styles 

 

Year 4

Mama Mia 

 

Style: ABBA’s music: 

 

Glockenspiel Stage 2 

 

Style: Playing the glockenspiel. The language of music. 

 

Stop! 

 

Style: Grime, Writing lyrics. Mixed styles: 

& Recorder

Lean on Me 

 

Style: Gospel/links to Religious music: 

 

Blackbird 

 

Style: The Beatles and the development of pop music The Civil Rights Movement.  

 

Reflect, Rewind, Replay 

 

Style: Mixed styles 

 

Year 5

Livin’ on a Prayer 

 

Style: Rock anthems: 

 

Classroom Jazz 1 

 

Style: Jazz and improvisation 

 

Make You Feel My Love 

 

Style: Pop ballads: 

& Ukulele

Fresh Prince of Bel-Air 

 

Style: Old School Hip Hop: 

 

Dancing in the Street 

 

Style: Mowtown: 

 

Reflect, Rewind, Replay 

 

Style: Mixed styles 

 

Year 6

Happy 

 

Style: Music that makes you happy!: 

 

Classroom Jazz 2 

 

Style: Jazz and improvisation 

 

A New Year Carol 

 

Style: Benjamin Britten’s Music 

& Ukulele

Music And Identity  

You’ve Got A Friend In Me 

 

Style: Carol King’s Music – Her life as a composer. Friendship: 

Reflect, Rewind, Replay 

 

Style: Mixed styles 

 

 

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