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MUSIC
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
Friedrich Willhelm Nietzsche
The music department consists of:
Miss Worthington - Music Teacher
Mr Baker - Music Teacher
Miss Blakemore - Peripatetic Music Teacher
Mr Grivell - Peripatetic Music Teacher
Mr Odart - Peripatetic Music Teacher
Mr Straw - Peripatetic Music Teacher
Miss Stubbs - Peripatetic Music Teacher
Facilities Include:
2 Teaching Rooms
3 Practice Rooms
The Curriculum
Key stage 3 Music
Music is divided into four elements – Listening, Performing, Composing and Appraising. Each element is evident in all work that pupils create, perform and assess.
What do pupils study?
Year 7
Ways of Playing and Reading Music
Music and Emotion
Music on the Stage
Year 8
Music from around the World
Art, Media and Music
Popular and Dance music
Year 9
‘Musical Futures’ – Pupils work in bands to perform a range of songs and compose their own.
The music department is currently piloting ‘Musical Futures’ in year 9. This will be piloted in year 8 as of September 2010. The hope is that soon the ‘Musical Futures’ approach will run across all three years at Key Stage 3.
For more information see the website - http://www.musicalfutures.org/
Key Stage 4 Music
Year 11’s are currently working with the OCR GCSE specification and Year 10’s are currently working with the AQA specification. There are three parts to the coursework, performing, composing and listening. Pupils study a range of popular, world and classical music and gain a greater understanding of music. This is supported by the composing and performing elements.
AQA Specification – how it works….
Performance Coursework – 40%
Composing Coursework – 40%
Listening Exam – 20%
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Useful Links
NUMU – www.numu.org.uk
Musical Futures - www.musicalfutures.org
Arts Award – www.artsaward.org.uk
GCSE Bitesize Revision – www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/music