Gordonbrock celebrates and champions this vision from the National Plan for Music Education in our young musicians’ daily lives.
Every child is a musician at Gordonbrock and all young musicians have the right to a diverse, well-rounded, high quality music education. Our music education is one of purpose and power: it’s not presented as a ‘nice to have’ or a mere cultural commodity, but is one which actively and continuously transforms lives – of young musicians, staff, parents and communities.
We create this musical environment by basing our ‘Gordonbrock Music Curriculum’ on the national Model Music Curriculum – a national progressive guide that takes our young musicians through a vast array of diverse genres, musical techniques and instrumental skills through composition and performance. All young musicians explore how musical techniques and skills can be nurtured and developed through singing, performing, composing and listening to music with increasing understanding and participating in performances as performers as well as audience members.
However, through our curriculum, Gordonbrock young musicians go above and beyond the expectations of the Model Music Curriculum and National Plan for Music Education through our partnerships with professional music organisations- through our links with Royal Opera House, Trinity Laban, SongEasel and Lewisham Music; our aim is to give our young musicians aspirations of professional music careers.
All young musicians perform termly either through singing in mass choir playground concerts, mass instrumental concerts, choirs, orchestra, instrumental ensembles or on stages with National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, London Youth Choirs, Royal Opera House Youth Choir, Lewisham Music and Trinity Laban.
We have been awarded the prestigious Music Mark school award for our high quality music provision across all areas. Our aim is to consistently promote resilient, collaborative and imaginative musicians daily.
Our music making culture creates three clear, but interlinked, areas of music education working in harmony:
