Music

Music at Bohunt provides a rich and vast experience, seeking to progress pupil mastery of performance, composition, theory, history and technology.

Above all, we value and celebrate pupils’ efforts in performing to others. We sing together whenever possible, give opportunities to try out different instruments and provide stimulus to explore pupil’s creativity and musical ideas.

Alongside this, we offer a contemporary education in production and music technology, using the latest Logic Pro X software on our range of Apple Macs. Pupils use these to sequence and arrange music, as well develop their own composition skills, using a vast library of instruments and samples and sculpting their own sounds through synthesis.

We have a dedicated team of experienced, professional instrumental teachers, who can offer one-to-one tuition in a range of instruments, including guitar, piano, drums, voice, woodwind, brass and strings.

KS3

• Pupils develop their knowledge of the fundamental building blocks of music through song study, instrumental technique, music theory and historical context.
• We encourage performance through singing and playing, and develop confidence through a nurturing and safe environment within which pupils can try, make mistakes and improve upon their skills, supported by constructive and positive feedback.
• We study a range of music spanning from traditional and classical, through jazz and blues all the way up to contemporary forms. Pupils will understand not only how the music works but also its context – how music can link to time, place, economy, social upheaval and adversity, can bring peoples together and allow individuals to have a unique voice.
• We also introduce music technology from an early stage, with some basic sequencing projects. This provides pupils with an insight into how much of modern music is created and develops skills crucial to GCSE.

KS4

• We run AQA GCSE Music, which takes all the skills built-up in the first three years and goes much, much further and deeper.
• We drill down into the minutiae of musical development in performance, composition, theory and history.
• Pupils will get a full, rounded experience involving all this disciplines, helping them to discover their true unique voice and style and develop the insight into just what kind of musical artist they want to be.