Music

The Music school website covers much of the Curriculum and can be visited by Clicking Here

Our Intent for Music at this school contributes to the whole school curriculum intent by enabling students to explore music from different genres, eras and cultures through listening, appraising, composing and performing.

The overarching intent of our curriculum for Music is to maintain and/or stimulate pupil's curiosity, interest and enjoyment in music. Pupils will experience music through listening and appraising, performance and composition spanning a range of eras, genres and cultures.

In addition to fulfilling the school aims, Music courses and activities should:-

• Broaden the musical experience of all pupils.

• Reflect pupil's interests and aspirations.

• Enable pupils to develop their potential through practical activities such as Listening, Performing and Inventing

• Cater for all ability levels.

The Music department has defined some core first order concepts that we feel are essential to the development of knowledge and understanding. These are listening, appraising, composing and performing.

The Implementation of the Music Curriculum

We teach Music via a series of carefully sequenced units which are organised around enquiry questions and the development of the substantive and disciplinary knowledge of the subject.

The music curriculum ensures students listen, perform, create and evaluate. This is embedded in the classroom activities as well as various extra-curricular clubs and opportunities. The elements and basic theory of music are taught in the classroom lessons so that students are able to discuss and evaluate how it is made up, performed and appreciated. Students also learn and develop their instrumental skills through whole class performing and also within smaller group settings. Students also have opportunities to compose using different methods linking to and building on their performing and listening and appraising skills.

End points for each unit, in terms of the knowledge we intend pupils to acquire, are clearly defined in the MTP and shared with pupils and parents/carers.

Throughout KS3 departmental planning will identify the key knowledge concepts to be learned by pupils, embedded in long term memory and to be checked by teachers during lessons and via more formal assessment.

The Impact of the Music Curriculum

The impact of the curriculum will be seen on a regular basis in the knowledge pupils express in discussion and written work of various types during lessons and as homework. Over time, assessment information will indicate that pupils have a secure grasp of the intended knowledge for particular units as well as prior learning.