The
Music Department
Welcome
to the Music Department at Nonsuch High School. This is
an extremely exciting time for the department, with recent
investment in music technology and instruments resulting
in our exceptional facilities. These facilities have enabled
us to move in new directions, whilst still maintaining the
more traditional aspects of music-making. Nonsuch has a
long tradition of excellence in music. In addition to music
in the classroom, there are numerous choirs and ensembles;
evening and lunchtime concerts; opportunities to take individual
lessons in school; and regular trips to concerts and workshops.
Over 350 pupils have instrumental lessons in school; these
are 30-minute lessons taught during the school day on a
rota system by visiting peripatetic staff. Our key objective
is to nurture excellence and encourage creative music-making
in pupils of all abilities and backgrounds. Please browse
the various sections of the music site to find out about
our curriculum provision, and to listen to a sample of performance
and composition work from our pupils.
"Provision in music is excellent" OFSTED 2004
Next
event: Spring Concert 19th March 2008, 7.30pm.
An annual event, this concert displays the wide spectrum
and high standards of musical activities that take place
at Nonsuch - one example of which will be a performance
of Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony.
Accomodation
The department is accommodated in a purpose-built music
suite, comprising two large teaching rooms, a Recording
Studio, seven Practice Rooms, a Sixth Form Resources Room,
Percussion Room, Instrument Store and Department Office.
The composition teaching room holds sixteen workstations
running Sibelius 5 and Cubase SE3, both of which are used
at all levels. The performance teaching room contains fifteen
Casio touch-sensitive keyboards, an electronic drum kit,
ten djembes, xylophones, and various classroom percussion
instruments.
Staff
Mrs Melanie Bowes - Head of Music
Mr David Johnson - Music Teacher
Mrs Susan Blackmore - Curriculum Support Officer
Fourteen visiting peripatetic teachers.
