Year 7 and Year 8 spend two hours per fortnight in both Drama and Music.
Drama
Year 7
- Relationships – Diary of a Wimpy Kid
- Darkwood Manor
- Evacuees
- Theatre in Education
- Storytelling
- Mask Work
Year 8
- Creating Tension
- Commedia Dell’Arte
- Witchcraft/Myths & Legends
- Active Shakespeare
- Fame & Celebrity
- Script Work (Our Day Out)
Music
Year 7
- Baseline Assessment: Listening Focus – Grieg, In the Hall of the Mountain King)
- Performance – Samba: Listening Focus – Santana. Oy Como Va
- Composition – Writing a Melody: Listening Focus – JS Bach, Minuet in G
- Improvised Performance – Raga & Drone (Alap / Vistar): Listening Focus – Alap in Raag Desh
- Composition – Music for a Moving Image: Focused Listening – Rhapsody in Blue & Davy Jones Motifs
Year 8
- Performance – Chords: Focused Listening – JS Bach C Major Prelude & Beethoven Moonlight Sonata
- Performance – Jamaican: Focused Listening – Bob Marley, Stir it Up & Skatelites – Guns of Navarone
- DJing: Focused Listening
- Composition Dubstep: Focused Listening – Skream, Midnight Request Line
- Hip Hop & Rap: Focused Listening: Pigmeat Markham, Here Comes the Judge & Tupac, Changes
- Musical Futures: Focused Listening: As defined by student choices
Extra-Curricular Activities
Within the Faculty, we are always keen to offer a range of additional activities to support students work within the classroom. Our current programme of events is constantly being updated to ensure we provide a broad range of activities. We are currently running or aiming to run the following activities:
- Robotics club
- D&T club
- Art club
- Friday lunch time catch up club
- CREST Award
- Musical instrument lessons
- School performances and musical events
- Guest speakers
- Arts Award