Music
Head of Department: Mr Craig Holder
Key Stage 3 (Year 7-9)
Year 7
Musical learning in Yr7 is based around the ‘building blocks’ of music. Students learn to recognise the elements of music through listening, and apply these through performing and composing.
Unit 1: Music-Basics & Beyond
Unit 2: Melody
Unit 3: Rhythm & Pulse
Unit 4: Scales
Unit 5: Guitar
Unit 6: Cyclic Music
Year 8
The Yr8 music curriculum investigates how the elements of music have been used over different periods of time and parts of the world. Students develop this knowledge and understanding through performing, composing and listening.
Unit 1: Theme and Variation
Unit 2: Programme Music
Unit 3: Elvis and Beyond
Unit 4: Indian Classical Music
Unit 5: Rhythms of the World
Unit 6: Music and the Media
Year 9
Musical learning in Yr9 enables students to build on their prior learning in Yrs7&8 and apply their knowledge and understanding to styles and genres of the 20th and 21st centuries. Skills are developed through performing, composing and listening.
Unit 1: Riffs
Unit 2: Music for Film
Unit 3: Blues & Jazz
Unit 4: Latin Music
Unit 5: Dance Music 1
Unit 6: Dance Music 2
Key Stage 4 (Year 10-11)
GCSE MUSIC 9-1 (OCR J536)
Coursework (60%)
Integrated Portfolio: 1x Performance & 1x Composition
Practical Component: 1x Ensemble Performance & 1x Composition
Listening Exam (40%)
Areas of Study:
- My Music
- The Concerto Through Time
- Rhythms of the World
- Film Music
- Conventions of Pop
Independent Learning Resources & Extra-Curricular
Key Stage 3
- SJCR Music Google Classroom.
Key Stage 4
- Rhinegold Education: OCR GCSE MUSIC STUDY GUIDE
- Rhinegold Education: OCR GCSE MUSIC REVISION GUIDE
- SJCR Music Google Classroom.
Extra-Curricular Activities
Students are able to gain experience and tuition for:
- Cello
- Choir
- Clarinet
- Drums
- Flute
- French Horn
- Piano
- Saxophone
- Singing
- Steel Band
- String Orchestra
- Trombone
- Trumpet
- Violin