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Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity. Studying Music:
- Increases confidence and self-esteem
- Improves health and well-being
- Provides important life and social skills
- Develops creativity and self- expression
- Improves cognition, literacy and numeracy
- Can be the key to unlocking potential and helps engagement in other areas
We aim to provide a high-quality music education which engages and inspires students to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians.
Through the schemes of work at KS3/4/5 students will perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions, including the works of the great composers and musicians. Students will learn to create and compose music on their own and with others, have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument, and use technology appropriately. Students will understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated, through the musical elements: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations.
We are committed to ensuring children understand the value and importance of music in the wider community, and are able to use their musical skills, knowledge, and experiences to involve themselves in music, in a variety of different contexts.
- Key Stage 3 Music (Years 7, 8 and 9)
- Music GCSE & Music Technology GCSE (Years 10 and 11)
- Music A Level (Years 12 and 13)
Key Stage 3 - Years 7, 8 and 9
| Year 7, Terms 1-6 | |
|---|---|
| 7.1 | Instruments of the orchestra, theory, keyboard skills. |
| 7.2 | World music |
| 7.3 | Blues |
| 7.4 | Blues composition |
| 7.5 | Ukulele |
| 7.6 | Programme Music |
| Year 8, Terms 1-6 | |
| 8.1 | Reggae |
| 8.2 | Waltz |
| 8.3 | Making a band/Ukulele |
| 8.4 | Form and Structure |
| 8.5 | Film Music |
| 8.6 | Musicals |
| Year 9, Terms 1-6 | |
| 9.1 | Latin Music |
| 9.2 | Jingles |
| 9.3 | Baroque Music |
| 9.4 | Folk |
| 9.5 | 20th Centuryisms |
| 9.6 | Free performance / presentation |
Music GCSE & Music Technology GCSE - Years 10, 11
| Year 10, Terms 1-6 | |
|---|---|
| 10.1 | Elements of Music, Solo performance |
| 10.2 | Seven Seas of Rhye analysis, Solo performance |
| 10.3 | Love of my Life analysis, Free composition, Listening skills |
| 10.4 | WCT 1650-1910, Free composition, Listening skills |
| 10.5 | Popular music, Bohemian Rhapsody analysis, Free composition, Listening skills |
| 10.6 | Traditional music, Bohemian Rhapsody analysis, Free composition, Listening skills |
| Year 11, Terms 1-6 | |
| 11.1 | Beethoven analysis, Listening skills, Free composition (finish), Brief composition |
| 11.2 | Beethoven analysis, Listening skills, Brief composition |
| 11.3 | WCT since 1910, Listening skills, Brief composition, Ensemble performance |
| 11.4 | Queen revision, Beethoven revision, Listening skills, Brief composition, Ensemble performance |
| 11.5 | Revision |
| 11.6 | Exam |
Music A Level - Years 12, 13
| Year 12, Terms 1-6 | |
|---|---|
| 12.1 | •Into the 20th century. Jazz genres • Composing skills • Baroque Harmony Renaissance music - Composition Pastiche techniques - Classical style - The Symphony - Set work analysis - Listening and general aural perception - The Early Symphony - Performasnce Practice - outline of coursecontent exspectations - scaffolding - brainstorming- homework set each week |
| 12.2 | • Into the 20th century and qu 8 • Composing skills Baroque harmony and counterpoint - the classical sylye - the sympnony - set work analysis - aural petrception - dictation - chord recognition - cadences - theory of music - homework set each week |
| 12.3 | • Poulenc - Trio for Oboe, Piano and bassoon movement 1 • Composing skills • approaches to extended writing skills - classical music and the classical style - classical harmony - patiche techniques - the symphony - set work analysis - aural perception skills - performance practice - extended responce - harmony and tonality and structural differences - brainstorming exercises - scaffolding - homework set each week |
| 12.4 | Romantic music -romantic pastiche composition - set work analsis - the romantic symphony - aural perception ( romantic) - performance practice - extended writing skills - programme music - patronage verses commissioned works - never ending melodies - quotes disscussed - brainstorming exercises - scaffolding - homework set each week . Poulenc - Trio for Oboe, Piano and bassoon movement 1 - practice questions and approach to qu 7. |
| 12.5 | •Jazz revision • Consolidation of Baroque concerto - 20th century music - 20th century composition - pastiche composition - aural perception - neo classical - impressionism - serialism - set work analysis and understanding - performing skills - extended responses - exam prepararion - serialism - atoality - scaffolding - homework set each week |
| 12.6 | • Listening skills • Revision for mock exam, answering listening questions. 21st century music - pastiche composition - approches to extended responce question - set work analysis - aural peception - performance practice - harmony and counterpoint - expressionist music - aleatoric music and compositions - stylistic recognition (all periods) - composing skills (exam based) - private study set each week |
| Year 13, Terms 1-6 | |
| 13.1 | •DEbussy - Fetes set work analysis • Composing free brief • Listening skills Coursework composition - Analysis of set works - aural perception skills - performance practice skills - approaches to paper three - approaches to extended response question - melody dictaion - keys/chords/cadence recognition - harmony and counterpoint - exam and audition preparation |
| 13.2 | • DEbussy - Fetes set work analysis and apporaches to question 7. • Composing- brief • Listening skills • Jazz Coursework - composition to brief - anaysis of set works - aural perception skills eg dictation - chord recognition - similarities and differences - analysis of set works - approaches to extended answer - approaches to component three - approaches to component one - approaches to component two - harmony and counterpoint - past papers discussed and set |
| 13.3 | • Revsion Jazz • Composing- brief • Listening skills Coursework - composing to a brief - aural perception skills - analysis of set workls - approaches to mark schemes and board recommendations - qoutes disscussed - further approaches to extended writing skills and essay questions - melodic dictation - chord recognition - cadence recognition structural recognition - appraoches to each component - past papers set and discussed |
| 13.4 | • Revsion of qu 8 • Composing- brief • Listening skills Cousework continued to deadline from chosen brief and free choice - aural perception exercisies continue until deadline met - analysis of set works contiued revised and information consolidated - understandings assessed continuously and lesson contents adapted appropriately to accommodate student learning esp with componant three - further appraoches to extended writing skill assessed - aural perception skill modified assessed etc until exam deadline reached - essay planning skills assessed and modified where appropriate - flash cards used - revision techniques explored |
| 13.5 | • Listening skills • Revision Coursework continued until deadline met - chosen brief explored further - aural perception skill developed further with tests adopted to accommodation differentiation within the group - analysis of set works entering into the revision stage - homework still set each week - exam conditions used each week to answer to extended response question and to assess learning - ideas and drafts re compositions assessed for appropriate development/structure/idiomatic writing ect.. |
| 13.6 | exam preparation each week with homework set - completion of coursework by deadline - further assessment of compositions to imporove on current levels of completion - final perormances assessed with programmes and approaches to performance practice - additional approaches to extended writing questionand component three in gereral with further scaffolding and revision techniques discussed - flash cards, brainstorming, midmaps and other suitable revision skills assessed - further past papers and extended answer questions answered under exam conditions |