Curriculum Leader:
Mr. Christopher Higgins (chiggins@stmichaels.bhcet.org.uk)
Departmental Staff:
Subject Background:
The KS3 curriculum has been planned so that students get a wide range of knowledge, understanding and skills within different areas of Music. The different projects have been carefully planned so that students build up on their prior knowledge, understanding and skills and make progress throughout this key stage. The projects cover a wide range of different specialisms of Music, particularly looking at the development of Music from 1600 through to the modern day and the impact this has had on cultural, social, religious and political development throughout this time period. All key stage 3 students can experiment with a wide range of skills in Music to develop their own unique style. Students have opportunities to experiment with different instruments, media, genres and stylistic idioms throughout this phase of their education. Students are encouraged to broaden their understanding and knowledge of different periods in history, musical movements and the course covers many different musicians that are relevant to their studies. Within Key Stage 3 students are assessed on their knowledge and understanding as well as their skills within their performance, compositional and final outcomes across all units.
The KS4 curriculum has been planned so that students get a wide range of knowledge, understanding and skills within different areas of the Music industry. The different projects have been carefully planned so that students build up on their prior knowledge, understanding and skills and make progress throughout this key stage. The music industry is a vibrant, exciting and highly competitive industry that contributed £5.2 billion to the UK economy in 2019 and generated a further £2.7 billion in export revenue. In 2016, live music alone created £3.7 billion in direct and indirect income for the UK. The music industry is constantly evolving and offers many different and exciting new work opportunities. In 2019, the music industry supported more than 190,935 full-time jobs in the UK, 139,352 of which were in the music creators’ sector.
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