The Performing Arts Faculty

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Instrumental Tuition

The music department are supported by nine Aberdeenshire Council Instrumental Music Instructors who visit the school each week to deliver free music lessons in the following disciplines:

• Bagpipes

• Brass

• Guitar and Bass Guitar

• Lower Strings

• Percussion (orchestral percussion and drum kit)

• Piano

• Pipe Band Snare Drumming

• Upper Strings

• Woodwind

To find out more about instrumental tuition, including how to sign up for lessons, please click here I

In S1 Music, learners spend term one  trying out the classrooms instruments and choose two to specialise in at the beginning of term two. Skills are developed on these instruments throughout the BGE. The classroom instruments on offer can be seen below. Listening and music literacy skills are developed through active learning tasks based on the following units of work: Getting Started, The Magic Mystery Wheel, Christmas Music, The Music of Scotland, Popular Music and Music from Around the World.

In S2 music the following topics are studied Music in the Media, Skills Development and Careers in the Performing Arts, Christmas Music, Showtime and Top of the Pops. Each topic incorporates listening, performing and composing active learning tasks and activities.

Senior Phase (S4,5 &6) Performing Arts Pathways

The following courses are offered in the senior phase: 

• Performance Arts (National 1 and 2)

• Music Technology (National 4, 5 and Higher)

• Drama (National 3, 4 and 5)

• Music (National 4, 5, Higher and Advanced Higher)

• Performing on One Instrument or Voice (SCQF Level 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7) delivered by the Instrumental Music Service Instructors

Click here to access the Performing Arts area of the subject choice website.