Our music curriculum ensures that every pupil develops a confident voice of expression, through the creating, performing, and critical engagement of music.
Our musical voice, be it an instrument, singing or a response to music, is a way for students to be heard, listened to and seen. It gives pupils the power to express their emotions and react to them through music. This drives their enthusiasm to listen to performances and encourages students’ determination to refine their work.
Our curriculum is underpinned by the following principles in order to achieve excellence:
- Knowledge-rich
- Thoughtfully sequenced; lesson by lesson, year by year
- Increasing in depth and complexity
- Academic, rigorous and challenging
- Consolidation through frequent and systematic review
Students at Heath Lane are given the opportunity to perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions, including the works of great composers and musicians.
They learn to sing and to use their voices, to create and compose music on their own and with others, have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument. Students work hard to develop their technical skills on their chosen instrument and love engaging in the joy of making music.