Use the boxes in lessons. These include vocabulary and thinking questions designed to deepen your understanding
Working with KS4 helpers to develop your practical skills.
Key Stage 4
Have you considered working with Sixth Form mentors to help strengthen your practical ideas?
Using A Level and GCSE exemplar work to support your personal development.
Using A Level texts to extend your drama knowledge.
Key Stage 5
Become a Sixth Form mentor - use your knowledge and understating to support those in lower school.
Independent work - reading researching and rehearsing will support and deepen your understanding.
Further reading - this will be a pivotal exercise in order for you to fully understand/participate in the explanation of context for the set texts
Theatre Trips - your experience of live theatre can only enrich your understanding and application of skills.
Music
Key Stage 3
Use of Solihull Music Service staff in Year 9 lessons to give you ideas on how to develop and improve your compositions
Work with the Sixth Form helpers to develop your practical skills
Try the extension tasks in KS3 lessons that challenge performance skills on specific instruments
Key Stage 4
More complex and interesting chords that could be used to enhance composition work.
Try working out how to play some of your favourite songs on your instrument. Work out the melody and chords (or even both).
Analyse pieces for music outside of the Set Works and examine structure in detail so that you can use the methods in your own music.
Key Stage 5
Independent work: You should be listening to a wide range of music in the styles and genres studied at A Level Music or Music Technology.
Further study: There are excellent BBC documentaries available on the internet that provide context for and analysis of a wide variety of genres and composers from Baroque and Classical to Rock and Reggae.
Play and sing Bach Chorales in 4-part harmony.
Aim to use a wider range of melodic and harmonic dissonances.
