What should students know, understand and be able to do within a whole school curriculum? How can the study of Music support that?

• To leave school with functional Literacy and Oracy
• To understand pathways to work and further education: CEIAG
• To develop resilience and confidence
• To be well rounded individuals, knowing their strengths and talents within a bigger picture/team
• To understand what the world has to offer and what they can offer the world
• To be ambitious and aspirational
• To be computer/technologically literate
• To know how to listen, mediate, negotiate, cooperate and collaborate
• To know how to be independent, driven and determined
• To know how to be healthy in mind, body and soul
• To make curriculum links
• To be able to be young people who can change the world

• Music at Trinity benefits from small group sizes enabling students to learn through practical ensemble based sessions or individual piano or composition study.
• We teach using a variety of teaching and learning strategies to help all learners excel in Music. The resources in the department are excellent.

We have many extra-curricular ensembles and peripatetic music lessons available, all of which support the development of our Trinity students as musicians within the classroom. This is particularly true for GCSE and BTEC students who receive paired or individual music tuition to help them be successful in the Performance units of their exam.

We also have an increasing focus on Band Skills as well as the well-established ‘classical’ instruments to ensure all musical career pathways are open to Trinity students within the modern music industry. We have growing numbers at GCSE and BTEC Music and are expanding our provision of Music Technology. Several of our students have gone on to study Music at university and conservatoire level, including the RNCM and University of Manchester.

Our activities and performances can all be seen by following our Twitter page: @TrinityHighMusic