In Year 7, Students will learn basic music skills of performing and improvising accurately, alone and in groups, and will develop the basic craftsmanship of composing with rhythms, notes and chords. They will learn through a range of practical activities and will learn to read staff notation. They will also learn how to listen to music actively and to transcribe simple rhythms and melodies. There will be six topics involving music from different cultures.

In Year 8 the students use the skills learnt in year 7 to create longer and more complex compositions, and to further develop performing skills on a variety of classroom instruments. They will learn to understand the basic forms and structures of Western Classical music, which is the bedrock of all music in the western cultures, and then undertake more complex rhythm and melody work through study of music derived from the Indian and African cultures. In the last term they will do some work on twentieth Century Film Music and Pop music.