By the end of Key Stage 3 (Year 9), pupils will have:
Gained an aural knowledge of a range of styles and genres.
Built an understanding of how musical elements work
Developed knowledge of a wider range of notes and improved their fluency in instrumental skill and music notation.
Had a number of opportunities to perform collaboratively with other students.
Engaged with creative processes through improvisation and composition. Music Technology plays an increasingly important role in the delivery of our Key Stage 3 curriculum, particularly given its importance in opening routes to further study.
GCSE Music enables learners to explore performance and composition with a focus on their own instrument and genre choices and offers the opportunity to explore new instrumental skills. Through the various genres, styles, and eras contained in our Areas of Study, students will :
Explore musical context and musical language through listening, and appraising,
Develop performance and composition skills.
Areas of Study Include: The Concerto Through Time, Film Music, Conventions of Pop, Rhythms of the World
In Key Stage Three students will be reinforcing the learning from primary school looking at the fundamentals of Art and then in year 8 exploring a range of materials and mediums, learning about art from different cultures.
In Key Stage Four students will be becoming more independent and hopefully become the driving force of their own personal practice within the titles given for the portfolio work. They will continue to develop the skills that they have learned in Key Stage Three, both artistically and in writing ability. They will continue to make work using a range of mediums but will also be working to become even more reflective learners of their own work and the work of artists and art movements.