Our P.R.I.D.E Vision and Values

At Gastrells we believe that Music is vitally important to develop pupils creativity, imagination and to improve their self-esteem and wellbeing. It gives children the opportunity to experience the world around them and express themselves in a variety of ways. We follow ‘Charanga’ to organise and plan our Music curriculum to ensure that children learn knowledge and skills progressively, term on term and year on year as they move through the school.

At Gastrells, pupils have a range of hands on musical opportunities. We do this by providing opportunities to perform, listen to and evaluate music, children experience through first hand. Every child in school has the opportunity to perform in a class play which includes a range of musical opportunities. Children also perform in a carol concert every Christmas and participate in weekly singing assemblies. From year 4 onwards children have the chance to perform in “Young Voices” in front of a large audience alongside other schools. Pupils also have access to piano, violin, guitar, drumming and rock band tutors as well as visiting workshops from Make Music Gloucestershire

We are very proud to be recognised as a Music Mark school. The Music Mark Award recognises the wide range of opportunities that are provided for children at Gastrells to share and enjoy music, to learn through music and to develop their musical understanding.