MUSIC

The Programme of Study for music has one attainment target which is defined through the key experiences of making and responding to music. The following skills are developed:

• improvising and composing
• interpreting and performing
• listening and appraising

The fundamental aim of the music curriculum is to develop pupils' musical ability. This musical ability is defined as their understanding and their "control of" music as a means of expression.

Pupils are encouraged to participate in a range of musical activities which should develop their composing, performing and listening skills and provide them with opportunities to exercise imagination and respond intuitively to a variety of stimuli.

CASTLEREAGH MUSIC PROJECT
Schools in the Castlereagh Council Area took part in a Millennium concert with the Ulster Orchestra at the Ice Bowl on 8 April 2000. New music for the event was written by Mark Doherty. The event was organised by Castlereagh Council in conjunction with the SEELB and the Ulster Orchestra.

SING
In February two SEELB schools, Our Lady and St Patrick's College, Knock and Wallace High School, took part in a concert in the Waterfront Hall with the Ulster Orchestra and other young musicians from the Province.

COMPOSER RESIDENCY
Bill Campbell, one of our foremost young composers, held a number of composition workshops with pupils in several of the SEELB Post Primary Schools in the Spring term.

BBC MUSIC LIVE
Many of our primary schools took part in a Musical round for Northern Ireland in conjunction with B.B.C. Music Live. The Round took place at 11:15a.m. on Thursday 25th May and the pupils' wrote their own words about their own area, sung to the tune of Frère Jacques.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
MUSIC at Key Stage 2 published by CCEA.