Key Stage 3 Music

Curriculum Content

Music

The work is designed to cover the areas specified by the National Curriculum. These are: Performing, Composing, Listening and Appraising.

Performing and Composing involve learning the skills necessary to produce a musical performance and to create one’s own music.

Listening and Appraising are concerned with understanding music and appreciating our musical heritage.

Resources

Many musical instruments are made available to pupils. These include recorders, keyboards and percussion instruments. Lunchtime classes are offered to pupils who require more thorough and detailed teaching in the theory of music, and they can be entered for the theory and practical examinations of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music. Peripatetic Music teachers come to school to teach brass, violin, cello, woodwind, percussion, guitar and singing.

Teaching Methods

Most of the work is practical, involving singing and the use of recorders, keyboards and percussion instruments in performance and composition. As far as possible the music which pupils listen to and study is linked to their practical work.

Skills and Knowledge

The complete musician can be described as someone who can use imagination to create music, skill to perform it and has the sensitivity and understanding to appreciate the music of others. These are the goals we set.