Music Department

Curriculum Overview

Topics in Years 1,2 and some 3 are linked in to class topics as much as they can be.

Exploring sounds - body
Christmas musical
Exploring pitch, tempo
Music Express 2
Exploring sounds ->
Music Express 2 Pg.52

Exploring patterns with instruments (ME)
Christmas musical
Dragon scales
Music Express 3
Exploring sounds ->
Music Express 3 Pg.42

Tudor music
Christmas musical
Multicultural music - Gamelan
SM pentatonic patterns
Exploring patterns->
Music Express 4 Pg.36

Rhythimic patterns (ME4)
Christmas musical
Graphic notation
Music Express 5
Exploring processes ->
Music Express 5 Pg.52

Composing / using the voice
Melodies to a given rhythm
Cyclic patterns --->
SM 'rhythmic vocals'
Rhythms / melodies
Music Express 6 Pg.54

Melody composition
Melodies
Using chords
Reggae project
Melody composition
Vocal layering

Music for special occasions
Music for Christmas MuM 2/2
Music for an advertisement
Musical cliches
Play / musical
Film music / processes

Chords and harmonies
Christmas song
Film music / processes
Modern music / composition
Play / musical
Play / musical

Squash Sensation: One of our Year 8 pupils is a squash superhero!; readmore > >

Slip Sliding Away!: Pennthorpe children had a blast on their ski trip in Austria over the holidays.; readmore > >

Christmas Tree gets A4 treatment!: Some of our After 4 regulars went to St Peter ad Vincula at Wisborough Green to dress a very special Christmas Tree for Pennthorpe.; readmore > >

French Farce!: The Onatti French Theatre paid us a visit recently.; readmore > >

Events and Lifeskills team pull off an amazing dinner!: We now have a Lifeskills team ain our Senior School who are taught basic social skills such as how to serve at a dinner party, how to greet guests and how to lay a table correctly. We also have an events team whose job it is to organise and plan events.; readmore > >