Music

Curriculum Intent

To instil in students a lifelong love, appreciation and understanding of music, with the view that everyone can be a musician. Music inspires and defines individuals, communities and whole nations; it is vital that our students understand its power and capacity to shape and effect the worlds both within and without us. Music at Beacon considers almost half a millennium of musical innovation, disruption and exquisite refinement; we proudly listen to a wealth of different genres, and seek to understand both the music and the context in which it was written. Students will approach the musical world and canon in a rigorous and practical, hands-on way, which is carefully scaffolded to embed and deepen their theoretical and contextual understanding of the ways in which great music works.

All Beacon students strive to make their MARK by being motivated, ambitious, resilient, and knowledgeable.