Music
Music has the ability to enable expression and nurture creativity in everyone; it forms communities and holds a vital place in cultures the world over.
Music helps us to understand the world’s different cultures and ways of life, leading us to discover how music brings us together.
This philosophy is one that we, at Co-op Academy Stoke-on-Trent, shape our Music curriculum around, with the intrinsic belief that Music should be accessible to everyone. We believe that a broad musical education is integral to our students’ learning, achieved through a wide range of listening/appraising, performance and composition activities throughout their whole school experience with us.
About the Department
Music lessons take place in our music suite comprising of a main teaching and ensemble room, 4 rehearsal rooms and a recording studio. The teaching room and recording studio are equipped with Apple Macs featuring industry standard composition, production and recording software.
The department is very well equipped with each room containing a range of instruments including guitars, keyboards, drum kits and various other percussion instruments. Besides the recording studio students also have access to iPads for learning and recording purposes.
Progression from studying Music
From studying music in KS4, you can go on to study music A-Level or a BTEC Level 3 in Music. This can lead to studying all sorts of subjects at University or onto exciting arts based apprenticeships. For example:
- Community Arts;
- Games music composer;
- Music journalist;
- Technician – Sound;
- Live events promoter.
Check out the range of apprenticeships here for which you need good music skills or take a look at some more information about music based degrees here.
Studying music can lead you to studying a wide variety of subjects at University. Such as:
- Community Music;
- Digital music and sound arts;
- Creative Music production;
- Popular Music;
- Music technology.
Have a look at the UCAS website to see how many different combinations you can do.