2.1 Aims
- To promote through creative involvement in music and the pursuit of excellence the development of personality.
- To develop musical sensitivity and the critical and imaginative faculties.
- To encourage social awareness and an understanding of the artistic views of others through musical activities.
- To advance the musical skills and concepts acquired at the Primary level so that all pupils, including the very talented and those with special needs, can engage in worthwhile musical activities enjoyably and profitably.
2.2 Objectives
To facilitate the development of performing skills at an appropriate level by providing opportunity for the regular practice of vocal and/or instrumental music.
To develop aural perception in its broadest sense and to foster an awareness and an appreciation of the music of the past and of the present, and of its role in our own as well as other environments.
To provide sufficient musical experience and factual information to enable the students to develop and practise listening and Composing skills with greater understanding and interest, and to support performing skills with a more informed awareness of the related and necessary underlying facts.