--- title: "Music" url: "https://fortisacademy.org.uk/curriculum/subjects/music" school: "Fortis Academy" --- # Music ## Curriculum Intent --- **Our curriculum provides students with the knowledge, skills, and experiences to develop their character and resilience. Our curriculum enables our students to realise their varied and ambitious aspirations.** **Our curriculum ensures that we are ‘Enriching Lives’ for all our students throughout their journey from Year 7, to adults who contribute positively within our rich and diverse society.** Our curriculum is planned with the intention of enabling the best outcomes for all students no matter their starting points or barriers to learning. We pride ourselves on our broad, balanced, inclusive, and representative curriculum. | Our curriculum vision is modelled in the music Curriculum where we believe in an inclusive education for all. | |---| | **Our curriculum intent is:** - **Coherently plan and sequence** our curriculum to meet the unique needs of all of our learners. - Offer a **breadth of activities** at KS3 that is sequential in leading to study BTEC Music at KS4; all students will be **stretched and challenged** over 5 years, taking into account different starting points. - Develop **effective literacy and numeracy skills** through the use of **digital technology**, creating learners who are **confident and competent** readers, writers and speakers, with essential **analytical skills** needed for subject success and future life. - Embed a range of wider **opportunities and experiences** for all, to ensure our learners have an educational experience that is rich and varied. - Encompass the **whole school core values** through the Music curriculum. | | **As a result the Music curriculum will:** - Enable students to develop an **understanding** of music through performing, composing, listening and analysing. - Develop their performing skills to **build self-confidence** to support them in all aspects of life. - **Cultivate** **creativity** through a range of composition tasks throughout key stage 3 - **Analyse** music from a wide range of styles and cultures. - **Nurture literacy skills** by developing key music terminology to enable pupils to speak with confidence about their work and a variety of styles. - Ensure pupils at KS3 are prepared to make **informed decisions** about Music at KS4 by **developing** their practical skills and **knowledge** of the musical elements. - **Develop** **problem solving, perseverance, time management** and **organisation** through performing, composing and listening tasks. - **Acquire** cultural capital through the introduction to a range of instruments and a wealth of music including Western Classical music and World Music. - Develop **digital skills** using music software to produce music. - Ensure pupils are **challenged** no matter what their starting point by developing their **leadership, organisation, resilience, initiative and communication skills.** - Ensure that our students develop a **passion for Music** and understand the multiple important benefits to having a depth of Musical skills and knowledge. | ### Music Documents Curriculum Map 494 KB [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/fortis-academy/files/documents/Curriculum_Map_Music_24-25.pdf) Core Values 592 KB [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/fortis-academy/files/documents/curriculum/Music/Core_Values_-_PA.pdf) [Embedded content](https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d2426.30260414627!2d-1.9057416231562243!3d52.546051034300206!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x4870a36e62f47207%3A0xf3c68c92e5c0b316!2sFortis%20Academy!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sen!4v1702887597107!5m2!1sen!2sen) **Fortis Academy** Aldridge Road Great Barr Birmingham West Midlands B44 8NU Tel: 0121 366 6611 Email: [![Shaw Education Trust](https://files.schudio.com/shaw-education-trust-2/images/logo/set-misc/footer-logo-v1.png)](https://shaw-education.org.uk) **Shaw Education Trust** Kidsgrove Secondary School Gloucester Road Kidsgrove ST7 4DL VAT: GB 358822467 Tel: 01782 948259 Email: Company Number: 09067175 ### Social Media - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/FortisAcademySET/) - [X](https://twitter.com/academy_fortis) - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/fortisacademyset) - [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/academy_fortis) © Copyright 2023–2026 Fortis Academy School & Trust Websites by [ ![Schudio logo](https://fortisacademy.org.uk/img/logo/light.png) ](https://www.schudio.com/)