Subject: Music

Head of Department: Mrs H Bennett

Qualification: GCSE

Examination Board: WJEC

Course Content:

The WJEC GCSE Music qualification will support you to:

develop performance skills
develop creative skills
understand musical forms, styles and genres
appreciate how to communicate musically
explore music created and performed by others to help develop your own talents
reflect on, evaluate and refine your work
explore diversity, identity and culture

Students will be required to reach around Grade 3 standard on an instrument or voice by the end of the course.

To enable them to do this, peripatetic instrumental / vocal lessons are offered in school for FREE to GCSE Music students.

How will you learn:
  • listening to and appraising music from a wide range of genres;
  • performing as a class or small group;
  • specialist instrumental/ voice lessons;
  • strategies for developing and refining ideas for compositions;
  • use of computer software / multi-track recording techniques to write/record compositions;
  • preparing for concerts both in school and within the community;
  • going to concerts;going to concerts;
How you will be assessed:
  • Unit 1 – Performing 32.5%
  • Unit 2 – Composing 32.5%
  • Unit 3 – Appraising 35%
Additional information / skills:

The music course gives Exploring: you will have the opportunity to explore various styles and genres of music linked to different cultures in Wales and the world and understand how they have been created to produce the intended effect. Responding and reflecting: you will be able to evaluate and refine your work through reflection and feedback from others, to create a successful finished product Creating: you will create your own original music in a style of your choosing, and a piece to meet a brief specified by WJEC using the techniques you have explored and reflected upon.


Job ideas:

Classical/rock performer, professional singer, musician in the armed forces, conductor, sound engineer, music therapist, classroom teacher, peripatetic instrumental/voice teacher, music librarian, broadcasting, publishing, record business, advertising, agent, arts promotion, choreographer, composer/song-writer, cruise-ship entertainer, DJ, film music editor, music instrument maker, musician, music journalist, radio producer, music retailer.


For further information see:  Mrs H Bennett


 

Contact the Prestatyn High School Options Team

Mr A Hall
Assistant Head Teacher

Prestatyn High School
Princes Avenue Prestatyn
Denbighshire
LL19 8RS

01745 852312

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