Music at Bolder
At Bolder Academy our Music curriculum is designed to develop our students into kind, strong, brave young adults where a Bolder future awaits.
The aims of the Music Curriculum
The aims of the Music curriculum are to:
- Engage and inspire students to develop a love of music and strength in practical music making; in terms of performance and composition.
- Develop a critical engagement with a wide range music, allowing students to listen and appraise with discrimination.
How we deliver Music
Bolder Academy follows the national curriculum. There is one music lesson per week through years 7, 8 and 9.
In music students are taught:
- To perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of periods, genres, styles and traditions.
- How to sing and how to use their voices with increasing accuracy and fluency.
- How to create and compose music on their own and with others on manuscript papers similarly to professional musicians at high standards.
- How to play a musical instrument with increasing accuracy and fluency.
- How to sight-read music by learning notes and rests duration.
- History of music spacing between the western classical tradition and the modern POP-Rock era of the 20th century
Students are given opportunities to perform both within the context of a classroom and wider school performances such as assemblies and concerts.
Additional teaching of musical instruments is offered to all students through the peripatetic teachers from Hounslow Music Service.
Our Intended Impact in Music
We will know if we have been successful when our students live and breathe our three core values within the Academy and beyond. This will be evidenced when students demonstrate they are:
KIND – members of the musical community who are aware and appreciative of different cultures and beliefs; due to an exploratory and inclusive curriculum, with a focus on the British values of tolerance and democracy.
STRONG – musicians who are able and skilled performers, composers and theorists; due to a focus on building from technical to expressive control over sound, rigorous implementation of the assessment policy and quality first teaching at the forefront of every lesson.
BRAVE – competitors who are not only well equipped, but determined, ambitious and structured in their pursuit of further musical study (GCSE / A Level / degree) or occupations, due to an insistent focus on and implementation of the music careers programme.