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