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Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity. A high-quality music education should engage and inspire pupils to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians, and so increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement. 

Music is all-inclusive. Pupils will gain an understanding and acceptance of the validity and importance of all types of music and an unbiased respect for the role that music may wish to be expressed in any person’s life.It is widely known that Music has a very positive impact on our mental health. Listening to music can change our mood and help us reflect on our feelings and experiences. Actually making music can help deepen that process, and making music with others brings further, overlapping, social, emotional – and educational – benefits. Music is deeply rooted in our evolution as a species – it’s no surprise that scientists have found that no other activity connects and activates so many different parts of the brain

Students at Canbury are offered one lesson a week at KS3. They will:

  • create and compose music using a variety of percussion instruments and keyboards on their own and with others.
  • understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated, using the seven elements of music: pitch, rhythm, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations.
  • develop social skills through co-operation with others in the shared experience of music making.