Sacred Heart Secondary School: Music Curriculum
Teacher: Linda Collins

Junior Certificate Curriculum
1st - 3rd Year
The Junior Certificate classes are mixed ability.
Higher Level and Ordinary level are taught together.
The timetable consists of two single classes and one double class per week.
Core Syllabus:
The course in Junior Cycle Music has been specifically devised to suit the entire range of student aptitude and ability. The course has been designed to enable all students, to acquire musical skills suited to their age, varying abilities and musical experiences.
The syllabus is divided into three component parts which represent the three main
musical activities.
(a) Performing Skills: Performing may be either school-based or the result
of private tuition and may be practised individually or in a group.
(b) Composing Skills: Students will be involved in the composing of
melodic phrases and an introduction to elementary harmony.
(c) Listening Skills: Students will be involved in responding in musically perceptive ways to previously prepared, as well as unprepared, songs and recorded works using technical and/or non-technical language. In the course of their study, students will acquire sufficient knowledge and experience of staff notation and aural training to be able to perceive and illustrate the relationship between sound and symbol.
Junior Certificate Examination:
Practical performance examination.
Dates: March/April of their Junior Cert Year.
and
Students sit a written paper in June of third year.
Leaving Certificate Curriculum
5th and 6th Year
The Leaving Certificate classes are mixed ability. Higher and Ordinary level are taught together.
The timetable consists of three single classes and one double per week.
Listening: 2 single classes
Composing: 1 single class
Practical performance/technology Class: 1 double class.
Core Syllabus:
The structure of this syllabus follows the Junior Certificate outline with three essential activities in performing, composing, and listening. Supporting skills and studies, e.g. music reading, analysis, dictation, historical and contextual knowledge, are included under one or more of these headings. Each student is required to study all three essential activities.
Each essential activity is allocated a 25 per cent weighting. The remaining 25 per cent can be chosen as performing, composing or listening.
Leaving Certificate Examination
Practical performance examination
Dates: March/April of 6th year.
Written paper
Dates: June of 6th year
Music Material List for 1st-3rd Year.
•Notebook with dividers
•Music Manuscript Copy
•Plastic Pocket folder A4 50 pockets
•Preparatory riam Theory Workout
•Sounds Good/Bravo textbook (given in school)
Sounds Good Workbook (teacher will advise when to buy this)
•Recorder & tin whistle
•Class soft test copy
Music Material List for 5th–6th Year.
•Scores for Set A/B
•Set A/B workbook
•Rapid revision Set A/B
•Notebook divider or Hardback copy
•Manuscript
•Plastic pocket folder/ring binder 50 pockets
•Instrument/voice
•Past papers
•Class test copy
Textbooks: Book Scheme
- Sounds Good and Bravo Junior Certificate
- Music Scores Leaving Certificate
School Musicals
Our School Musical is one of the highlights of the school year and the local entertainment scene. Our talented students have exceeded all our expectations time and time again with superb performances. This year we held our musical Beauty and the Beast, in the TLT theatre Drogheda. We have always had a great reputation for staging wonderful shows and this year was no exception. Perhaps nothing else better demonstrates school unity and purpose than the preparation and delivery of top quality performances that have become synonymous with the Sacred Heart School musical.
- 2000 - Grease
- 2001 - Fame
- 2002 - West Side Story
- 2003 - Calamity Jane
- 2004 - Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
- 2005 - My Fair Lady
- 2006 - Grease
- 2007 - Oliver
- 2008 - Fame
- 2009 - Grease
- 2010 - Super Trouper, Abba the Musical
- 2011 - Oliver
- 2012 - Grease
- 2013 - Hairspray
- 2014 - Mama Mia
- 2015 - Oliver
- 2016 - Back to the 80’s
- 2017 - Beauty and the Beast

'Beauty and the Beast, (2016)

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