Post Primary Schools Curriculum

“As a creative endeavour, music can facilitate the development of imaginative and exploratory experiences, where individuality and personality are provided with the opportunity to grow and be given a voice. The study of music offers lifelong opportunities to develop the imagination in unique ways…” Curriculum. You will find links to the Junior and Senior curriculum cycles for your convenience below. Junior Cycle Subjects and Senior Cycle Subjects

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A Musical Journey through your Teenage years.

Playing Music through your Post Primary years can give some of the greatest joys of your school years and create wonderful memories. As your musical skills, and therefore your ability to play music with others improves, many doors open to wonderful universes. Whether you play with a group or participate in a musical or an orchestra you will form lifelong memories and friendships.

The Post Primary Music curriculum

The curriculum whether for junior or senior cycle is designed to give you a musical journey to explore the history and wonderful repertoire of music already created, the theory of music, and your own performance and creativity. Make the most of it as there is extraordinary beauty to be found both in what already exists and what you can participate in creating in the future

Waltons New School Competition for Post Primary Schools.

To encourages Post Primary Schools in their music endeavours Waltons in conjunction with The National Concert Hall and Lyric FM, run an annual competition where 6 finalist Post Primary Schools get to perform in the National Concert hall and the winners take home a large voucher for Musical Instruments for their School. Here is a link to the site where you can see previous performers and winners and what they achieved. https://www.newschool.ie/waltons-music-for-schools-competition

Musical instruments, Equipment and books and Courses.

Waltons realise that studying music in school can be expensive. We have tried to offer a wide variety of instruments equipment and books to suit all budgets. If a pupil or teacher has a requirement that we can help you with you can email us at info@waltonsmusic.ie with your requests or talk to us by phone (01) 820 7425. We will do all we can to help.

Junior Cycle Music Curriculum

This is a link to the curriculum. https://www.curriculumonline.ie/Junior-cycle/Junior-Cycle-Subjects/Music. We will do our very best to help you. Our New School of Music https://wwww.newschool.ie carries out individual instrument tuition along with theory of Music Classes. We also run online one to one tuition if travel is difficult for you. We have over 10,000 different music instruments, accessories and books in store at our Blanchardstown store or online. Below is a list products that we highlight for you that may be of specific use to you for your course whether teacher or pupil, feel free to ask for help info@waltonsmusic.ie or (01) 820 7425.

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Senior Cycle Music Curriculum.

This is a link to the Curriculum. https://www.curriculumonline.ie/Senior-cycle/Senior-Cycle-Subjects/Music. We offer individual one to one classes in our New School of Music if you require www.newschool.ie, along with theory classes and technology courses which can be extremely helpful. We are happy to try and help you with any requirements you may have. So contact either info@waltons.ie or call us (01) 820 7425. It will always be a good idea to look at our “Creative Technology” section . There are many aids there that could well be helpful with the course. Here are some links you might find useful. FAQs About Music Education , FAQs About Music Grade Exams , Practice Tips, Careers in Music

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Waltons New School Post Primary Competition.

Whether teacher or pupil you should take a look at Our YouTube videos of some of the previous Finalists of this Great Competition. It is true “if you can’t see it, you can’t be it. If you look at these and see what the pupils and teachers of these schools achieved it can give you an idea of what you can do by encouraging your fellow pupils, fellow pupils and sometimes teachers to go for something. For information go to https://www.newschool.ie/waltons-music-for-schools-competition/

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