Music

Music has the capacity to engage, entertain, challenge, inspire and empower students. Studying music stimulates imaginative and innovative responses, critical thinking and aesthetic understanding, and encourages students to reach their creative and expressive potential.

Music exists distinctively in every culture and is a basic expression of human experience. Students' active participation in music, individually and collaboratively, draws on their own traditions and life experiences. These experiences help them to appreciate and meaningfully engage with music practices and traditions of other times, places, cultures and contexts.

Music knowledge and skills ensure that, individually and collaboratively, students:

• develop the confidence to be creative, innovative, thoughtful, skilful and informed musicians

• develop skills and techniques to actively listen, analyse, improvise, compose and perform music

• interpret and apply the elements of music, engaging with a diverse array of musical experiences as performers and audience members

• develop aesthetic appreciation and respect for their own and others' music practices and traditions across different times, places, cultures and contexts.

See our school website for information on our Music program.