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Music

Name of Department: Miss A Milton

"To develop a sense of empowerment, identity and togetherness through opportunities where music acts as a universal language of connection"

Our approach to the Music Curriculum

All students at St Augustine’s will have the opportunity to study Music as part of their KS3 curriculum. The KS3 curriculum has been designed to ensure students are able to build upon what they have been taught in their KS2 curriculum in primary school, regardless of their starting point. Students in Year 7, 8 and 9 will undertake one lesson a week. The aim of our music curriculum is to offer our students the opportunity to be a part of a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity, within one of the UK’s largest industries. There will be a focus on the three main skill areas within music. ‘Listening and appraising’, ‘performance’ and ‘composition’ whilst also developing students’ knowledge of more formal music theory and notation. We want to enable students to develop a love and appreciation of a number of different music styles, whilst being able to build a critical understanding of music, allowing them to perform music from some of the key composers who have shaped music history and communicate their emotions and explore how music is created through composition. Music as a subject supports the school’s ethos, most notably by allowing students to demonstrate their joy of learning by expressing themselves through performance and composition. It also supports our ethos of community through whole class, paired and group performance opportunities.

Curriculum Content

Students will build on their previous knowledge and skills through performing, composing and listening. They will develop their vocal and instrumental fluency, accuracy and expressiveness; and understand musical structures, styles, genres and traditions, identifying the expressive use of musical dimensions. They will listen with increasing discrimination and awareness to inform their practice as musicians. They will use technologies appropriately and appreciate and understand a wide range of musical contexts and styles.

Students will be taught to:

  1. play and perform confidently in a range of solo and ensemble contexts using their voice, playing instruments musically, fluently and with accuracy and expression
  2. improvise and compose; and extend and develop musical ideas by drawing on a range of musical structures, styles, genres and traditions
  3. use staff and other relevant notations appropriately and accurately in a range of musical styles, genres and traditions, developing their use of formal music theory and notation
  4. identify and use the inter-related dimensions of music expressively and with increasing sophistication, including use of tonalities, different types of scales and other musical devices
  5. listen with increasing discrimination to a wide range of music from great composers and musicians
  6. develop a deepening understanding of the music that they perform and to which they listen, and its history.

Music Development Plan

St Augustine's Music Development Plan 2024-2025