Music

Music at DILS is to produce the musicians of the future, those who will continue to enjoy performing and enjoying music into their adult lives. All students, regardless of ability, will achieve their musical potential, gain an understanding of a huge range of musical styles, gain the skills required to create and play on a range of instruments, and build on developing their key attributes that learning music supports.

We aim to provide an exciting musical curriculum. We believe that Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity. We aim to engage and inspire pupils to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians, and so increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement. The children are taught to develop a critical engagement with music.

Why is Music important?

Through music, we are provided with a powerful universal language which helps promote unity, enables us to process and express our emotions and fuels our imagination.

Music is important in developing individual discipline, focus and memory.

Whether the we are singing, playing, or listening, we develop our aural discrimination through music, which is an important part of communication and literacy.

How is Music taught?

Music is taught through a combination of subject knowledge and composing, performing, listening and appraising skills. Learning takes place both inside and outside the classroom.