Performing Arts (Dance, Drama & Music)

At OMA we believe education is for everyone, that all students irrespective of their backgrounds, will be exceptional pupils, so they are equipped with the necessary knowledge, skills, qualifications, and mind-set to contribute positively to society.   

Everything we do in the vocational faculty is aimed at providing an ambitious and challenging curriculum which inspires, motivates, and exploits the limitless potential of all our students. This will be achieved by us ‘being inspired by the past – creating excellence in the present- by embracing the future’.    

Our long-term aim is to produce thinking, adaptable adults capable of taking his / her place in a changing technological society. We strive to create distinctive and dynamic partnerships between students and the world or work, forging active relationship with industry-based external training providers and employers.    

The vocational curriculum seeks to promote an educational culture which is scientific, technological, creative, healthy, and entrepreneurial within the framework of the school and national curriculum. In addition, our faculty aims to provide the excellent practical technological, scientific, and holistic communication skills needed by our manufacturing and service industries within the UK and global markets. Thus, ensuring that our students will be well-educated and skilled, ready, and able to progress into employment, further training, or higher education according to their individual aptitudes and ambitions.    

The faculty will be truly cross-curricular and will use aspects of many subjects to aid the students when developing innovative ideas and solving problems individually or as a team. The only boundary to making an impact in the future is our ‘imagination’ and our ability to ‘engineer’ the solutions that could affect peoples’ lives. Students arrive and leave our faculty with a sense of wonder in learning…that they will carry with them for a lifetime.   

Pupils should be taught to:  

The aims we have for students are:

For all students to understand and apply the fundamental elements of music and performing arts, including:

• Practical experience
• Knowledge of key practitioners and their styles
• Understanding and identifying different performance styles
• Affective performance concepts
• Creating and producing their own devised performance pieces
• Composition

Year 7:

Curriculum aims to introduce students to music and performing arts. Students will be able to conduct research (both through classwork and homework) into different practitioners and their performance styles; how distinctive styles can create a different effect. Learning different performance skills, specifically how these can impact a performance and be used in day-to-day life.  Students should be able to become a responsible performer in a music/performance space, applying this to each session. The students are also expected to develop and effectively use their skills practically.

Year 8:

Curriculum aims to build on the skills acquired in year 7 and extend students’ understanding of performance skills to help with the creation of their own performance material. Specifically studying script and music composition.

Year 9:

The curriculum aims to build on skills learnt in Year 7 and 8 and introduces more specifically musical theatre and Shakespeare. Students will research the different styles and be able to confidently identify the differences between the two styles. Students will apply this to their own devised performance pieces.

Where can studying music and performing arts take you? Click on the link below:

https://uk.indeed.com/Performing-Arts-jobs-in-Grimsby?vjk=890dd750cd1e8142

• Performing arts/ music teacher
• Drama Therapist
• Music producer
• Director
• Script writer
• Technician
• Performer

Performing Arts Year 10

Pupils should be taught to:  

The aims we have for students are:

For all students to understand and apply the fundamental elements of performing arts, including:

• Practical experience
• Knowledge of key practitioners and their styles
• Understanding and identifying different performance styles.
• Affective performance concepts.
• Creating and producing their own devised performance pieces
• Composition
• Responding to a brief
• Evaluating both written and practical work
• Analysing a performance

Where can studying performing arts take you? Click on the link below:

https://uk.indeed.com/Performing-Arts-jobs-in-Grimsby?vjk=890dd750cd1e8142

• Performing arts/ music teacher
• Drama Therapist
• Music producer
• Director
• Script writer
• Technician
• Performer

Music Year 11

Pupils should be taught to:  

The aims we have for students are:

• To recall and apply knowledge in familiar situations, including the groupings in the sector and the purpose and role of organisations in delivering Music.
• To be able to interpret information to select and apply knowledge of the Music and their work. They are able to define and communicate key aspects of the Music, including how the services are organised and the different delivery models for Music, with their advantages and disadvantages.
• To be able to select appropriate actions that the Music would take in simple and familiar contexts. They are able to relate knowledge of the Music and how the services work in vocational and realistic situations, making some decisions about valid applications and impact.
• To understand the impact funding has on music provision, and why, how and to whom the Music are accountable for the services they provide.

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