Page 72 - Bellfort Magazine Issue 8

Music is a developing feature and Wind Ensemble. There are
KS3, KS34 and Post-16 also many smaller music groups
curriculum at Dunclug College. which form from term to term;
In Junior Music we study pulse worship team, rock group and
and rhythm, the elements of our acoustic group.

Music and the orchestra.
Spring Concert

Our annual Spring Concert sang ‘What If?’ from the
features many musicians and is Addams family. The
a showcase of the variety of instrumentalists in the
music on offer in our school. department shown as for the
Many soloists, both from Drama first time we had a 20 piece

and Music performed to a Samba band selected from our
In Year 9 we look at Indian,
packed house! First public Year 9 pupils—they raised the
Samba, Blues and Jazz. We
performances from Leah Todd roof with their pulsing rhythms!
finish Year 10 studying the
on the Flute playing a Handel The Junior Music group under
Musical and Rock and Roll.
‘Allegro.’ Many of our senior
Every lesson consists of
musicians took to the stage in
listening, performing and
what is becoming a feast for the
composing activities using our
senses with the eclectic
new keyboards and orchestral
repertoire on offer. Amy Ford
instruments. As pupils progress
was Eva Peron in ‘Don’t cry for
to GCSE and A Level Music, we
me Argentina’ while Ruth
explore composition and
Morrow dazzled in her rendition the direction of Mrs Robyn Bell
extended Music repertoire in a
of ‘Wishing you were somehow performed a Take That classic in
more detailed way.
‘Rule the World’ as well as the
The Music rooms are a hive of
uplifting ‘All Star’ from Shrek. It
activity every day with many
is a joy to see these young
pupils rehearsing before and
musicians attend weekly
after school. Ensembles meet
rehearsals and develop their
on a weekly basis, these include:
skills in performance as well as
Whole school, Year 8 and
making meaningful friendships!
Leah Wright, Ellie Clyde and
here again’ from Phantom of Georgina Bayliss who

the Opera. The boys made sure performed ‘The Water is Wide’
they didn’t let the side down and ‘Ours’ were accompanied
with a catchy acoustic song ‘I by a cornerstone to the Music
feel Love’ by Denver Mahaffey, Department; talented guitarist
Timmy Hill and Mark Robinson. and sound technician Stewart
Chamber Choirs, Orchestra, Joel McGuinness touched the McClintock.
String Group Traditional Group hearts of everyone when he 71