The Music Department

Music is at the heart of every student’s development. Music encourages the development of motor skills, coordination, aestheticism and self-expression and links closely with many other subjects enabling students to access areas that they may find difficult.

We aim to:

• Provide enjoyable lessons in a safe environment
• Teach well-prepared and stimulating lessons using a variety of activities
• Include all students in the lesson
• Provide opportunities for students to develop outside of the lesson
• Expose students to a variety of Music
• Encourage students to be independent in their learning
• Enable students to develop functional skills that they can apply in different situations

The Music Curriculum

The new curriculum (2008) is designed to enable students to make links across subjects. Music, Art and Drama have teamed-up to create lessons that link across the curriculum areas. So for example, students study Genre painting in Module 1 in Art; they use those pictures as a stimulus for composition in Music and then develop scenes from the same images in Drama.

14-16 Options (KS4)

1. GCSE Music: this course is ideal for students who enjoy performing, composing and listening to a variety of different styles of music.
   See www.edexcel.org.uk for more info


2. Music Technology: this course is equivalent to 2 GCSE’s and there is no exam as it is all coursework based. Students learn about recording and composing techniques using computers and recording live sounds. For further information please go to http://www.ncfe.org.uk

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