Music

Accommodation and Equipment

Housed in the Expressive Arts building and consisting of 2 purpose built music rooms and 1 separate practice room.  Both music rooms are fully equipped with keyboards (full sized keys), Clavinovas, classroom instruments and sound equipment. 

Instrumental Tuition

The school provides high quality weekly Instrumental tuition on Woodwind, Brass, Strings, Guitars and Drums and also Singing tuition. All lessons are free and lessons are usually 25/30 minutes each. Our students have gained excellent results in Associated Board Music Examinations which they are always able to enter throughout the school year. Instrumentalists are also coached individually for this.

The Annual School Production

The Music, Art, Dance and Drama departments all work together to  produce a full scale musical production every year. The show is always a sell-out and is performed over 3 nights.  Our last production was the musical “Sound of Music". Many students are involved each year with our musical productions.

Key Stage 4

GCSE music is offered to all students who wish to take this option. The AQA specification is used at present. The course components are Listening & Appraising, Performing (1 Solo and 1 Ensemble performance per pupil) and Composing. Students are required to produce an Integrated Assignment as part of the course. Compositions are submitted to the exam board on CD.