Key Stage 3
Students receive two hour-long sessions every week and have access to the extensive peripatetic provision, dependent on availability, and to the range of enrichment activities that includes ‘Soul Band’, ‘Choir’ and ‘String Ensemble’.
YEAR 7:
Term 1:
Rhythm and Pulse
Graphic Score
Instruments of the Orchestra
Term 2:
Basic Keyboard Skills
Term 3:
Gamelan
Chinese New Year
Mozart Beethoven and Chords
Carousel
YEAR 8:
Term 1:
African Drumming
Backing it up
Blues
Introduction to Logic software
Structure
Term 2:
Reggae
Music and Moving Images
Cover Versions
Synthesia
Funk/Disco
Term 3:
Musical Futures
Beats, Dance Music and song writing
Recording, Mixing and Producing
YEAR 9:
Term 1:
Samba
Salsa
The Model
Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods
Jazz
Term 2:
Cover versions
Chord Cliches
Synthesia learning
Term 3:
Musical Futures
Recording, Mixing and Producing
Synthesia