Gifted and Talented Music

Within the Music Department provision for Gifted and Talented Children is made both instrumentally and vocally.

 

As a member of the Orchestra, a pupil's musical development is matched by individually differentiated parts tailor made for the players. Talented singers are challenged with advanced part singing in the Concert Choir, once they have successfully passed through the Training Choir and the audition process. Over recent years a number of our choral students have gone on to be successful in the National Children's Choir of Great Britain and the National Youth Choir.

Other smaller ensembles are run by a number of peripatetic staff when a more intimate grouping of advanced students are able to rehearse and perform together on a range of platforms during the year.

A Music Theory Club is also run in order to enable students to reach the required level of musical understanding needed to embark on Grade 6 practical examinations.

In the classroom the most able pupils are continually catered for with appropriately differentiated work at all stages of their musical development.

The Music Department achieves remarkable successes in both group and individual work. It has a strong choir and orchestra and is supported by a peripatetic staff to offer a range of tuition.

  - The Life Music Agency runs a guitar ensemble and Rock Band as extra-curricular activities.

 -  Children regularly reach Grade 5 by Year 6 on a range of instruments and voice.

 -  We have a child in the National Children's choir of Great Britain.

 -  2 pupils have won music scholarships to Berkhamsted Collegiate, in 2008 and 2011 respectively.

 - The school recently entered the BBC Radio 3 Choir of the Year competition,   reaching the quarter finals at The Anvil, Basingstoke.