KS5 Music

The Staff

• Mr Nigel Rochford BA, Cert Ed - Curriculum Leader for Music

• Mr Sam Mercer BA (Hons) PGCE -Teacher of Music

• Miss Theresa Head BA (Hons) PGCE - Teacher of Music

Sam Mercer and Theresa Head currently teach AS and A2 Music and they have selected the AQA specification as it gives an opportunity for both the classical musician and the more contemporary popular music musician to develop their skills and understanding of music at advanced level.

We have a policy of reviewing the needs of individual students and then planning teaching according to those needs. We currently teach the Popular Music options which lead on from work studied at GCSE.

 

The Music Department Facilities

The new school building has given us the opportunity to plan the best designed and resourced Music Department in the area and possibly much further a field!

Three Music Teaching rooms

Four Practice Rooms

Recording Studio

 

Equipment   Each teaching room will be equipped with:

 

a high quality Yamaha piano or Clavinova piano

Yamaha Stage Custom Birch or Electronic Drum kit

Carlsbro PA

16 high spec touch sensitive Yamaha keyboards

15-20 Mac ibook computers

a full range of electric and acoustic Guitars with Amps

a full range of classroom percussion instruments

a selection of String, Wood -wind and Brass instruments

an extensive supply of general classroom and recording musical equipment.

An Interactive white board

 

Practice rooms will be equipped with a high quality Yamaha piano or Clavinova piano, Yamaha Stage Custom Birch or Electronic Drum kit, Electronic keyboard and listening/recording/playback equipment.

Over £40,000 of Music equipment has been ordered for the new department!

 

Performance calendar

We are renowned for the wide range of music performance opportunities which we offer. Annual events for all students include The Wold of Music Concert, The Rock, Pop, Rhythm and Blues Evening, The GCSE Music evening, The Winter Show and The Summer Show. AS and A2 Students also have two performance evenings.

 

Music Ensembles

Pop Choir

Samba Band

Allerton Grange Rock Band

Allerton Grange Concert band

 

Music ICT

Recording Studio:

The Music Department will have a custom built recording studio. This will be equipped with the "state of the art" equipment! It will be available for AS/A2 students to use for the study of Music Technology work as well as for recording high quality music work.

 

Teaching rooms:

We have ordered a range of Apple Mac equipment which will be loaded with the very latest range of industry standard software. This will include Sibelius, Reason and Garage Band. The list will be finalised in spring as we want to make sure that we have the very latest equipment and software!!