Through this year, the focus is on understanding the concepts enough to explain how the musical elements have been used in a piece of music. Year 9 students complete the 3-year KS3 course, again built up on succession of units over the three years to develop musical and personal skills required for further independent study. Year 8 topics include: Hooks and riffs Offbeat Variations All that jazz All about the bass Saharan sounds. This is structured in the same way, with a combination of understanding the context, performing, composing and appraising. In Year 8, Students build on top of the work from the previous year. Year 7 topics include: Building bricks Keyboard skills I’ve got rhythm Form and structure Sonority city Folk music. This is taught through exploring the musical context and applying this to a combination of practical performance and composition tasks, learning and developing individual skills. The Year 7 course is based on the foundations of music, developing and extending their understanding of the musical elements. Key Stage Three: In Year 7 students arrive to DGGS with a varying degree of musical understanding and skill, based on their experience and access to a music curriculum at primary school level. By reviewing and refining their work, they have the opportunity to identify areas for improvement and will be given direction and incentives to address these areas, to become accomplished in their musicianship.

They are encouraged to evaluate their own work, growing as a musician and understanding that not everything works first time.

This supports students’ development of musical understanding, and their ability to apply this new knowledge to their own practical work, in both performance and composition, and to be able to make critical judgements about their own, and others’ work. The courses are carefully planned in order to allow, and support, students to progress across a 3-year programme, inspiring students along the way. Students are encouraged to delve into the world of music, from Baroque to Modern, Classical to Popular to World Music, investigating the different styles, genres, composers and artists that make up the life experiences that surround us on a daily basis. The Music Curriculum at DGGS has been created to develop competence, creativity, musical and cultural understanding, and critical interpretation in the areas of performance, composition and appraising. The aim of this curriculum is to bring Music back to a point where everyone can access it, and anyone could do it. To nurture and develop a sense of creativity, self-confidence and self-discipline within students, providing them with the opportunity to develop a new set of skills, both musical and personal, to prepare them for future education and the world of work.įor a long time, Music has been seen as an elitist subject, only available to those who have the money, or who are privileged to have access to music lessons at primary school. Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.

Supercurricular, Leadership and Emerging Talent Programmes.

Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Education.

Musical contexts form and structure