Music

A specialist Music teacher takes all classes for singing and curriculum music. The lessons cover many aspects including:

• Developing an understanding and appreciation of a wide range of different kinds of music, developing and extending their own interests and increasing their ability to make judgments of musical quality.
• Acquiring the knowledge, skills and understanding needed to make music, for example in community music-making, and, where appropriate, to follow a music-related career.
• Develop skills, attitudes and attributes that can support learning in other subject areas and that are needed for life and work, for example listening skills, the ability to concentrate, creativity, intuition, aesthetic sensitivity, perseverance, self-confidence and sensitivity towards others.

There are further opportunities available to extend our pupils in music e.g. a Peripatetic Music teacher extends the instrumental provision taught in class to include piano, clarinet and flute lessons. We have a large choir who rehearse each week in preparation for assemblies and local and national events and we can now boast a thriving Orchestra which has already played a short concert to the school and is looking forward to playing at a variety of events in the future.