The music department has extensive facilities, to enable teaching to be carried out at a very high standard.

Rooms in the Department:

Classrooms

Two teaching rooms on the upper floor, one multi-purpose small room downstairs

Practise Rooms

Three rooms including the multi-purpose one (with percussion equipment including 4 pedal timps and vibes).

Also music office, music store and instrument store.

£1,000,000 new developments in the school, inlcuding a new school library, another music room, and a new recording studio. Work is currently in progress, and these developments will improve the facilities further.

We have a Mackie 24 Track 8 Buss mixing desk with a Mackie SDR 24/96 digital hard disk recorder and a wide selection of Dynamic and Condensor Mics including a 7 piece specialist drum mic set, several effects units and several compressors and Noise Gates.

All of this brand new equipment was bought to enable us to offer the A2 Edexcel Music Technology course.

We run Cakewalk sequencing software throughout the department which includes Music Creator and Sonar. We also run Coda notation software (Notepad 2004, Printmusic, and Finale 2004.) We also have FL Studio for dance music sequencing.

To find out more about the music technology courses and facilities, and to see photographs of the music equipment, click here