Music
Meet the Team
Head of Faculty: Mrs T Hunt (Associate Assistant Principal)
Teacher of Music: Mr G Barrie
Nick Gibb“Music, arts and culture play an essential role in enriching pupils’ education.”
Michelle Obama“Arts education isn’t something we add on after we’ve achieved other priorities, like raising test scores and getting kids into college. It’s actually critical for achieving those priorities in the first place.”
Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity. At Serlby Park Academy we aspire to deliver high quality music lessons that engage and inspire students to develop a love of the art form as well as to nurture their talent as musicians. Through music, students are supported in building personal skills and qualities:
• self-confidence through performance and collaborative learning
• resilience – the creation of Art is built on initial failures and the artists’ ability to overcome these
• creativity through the exploration of compositional styles and techniques
• sense of achievement through following work through to completion.
Music lessons at Serlby Park develop skills in listening, composition, and performance. Our aim, through the music curriculum, is to increase the cultural capital of our students, ensuring they can:
• perform, listen to, review, and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles, and traditions, including the works of the great composers and musicians
• 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, use technology appropriately and have the opportunity to progress to the next level of musical excellence
• understand and explore how music is created, produced, and communicated, including through the inter-related dimensions: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure, and appropriate musical notations.
