For Standard Level, you select either Performing or Composing. For Higher Level, you must do both. • Performing: 50% for SL option/25% for HL - Your performance, which you work on one-on-one with a teacher, is recorded and assessed throughout the course, and can be on any instrument or voice of your choosing. Expression and interpretation are considered more important than being at a particular grade level. • Composing: 50% for SL option/25% for HL - Higher Level students also undertake composition tasks. These will include free compositions in any style of your choice and short exercises where you will learn to write in a particular style. This is assessed as coursework. • Musical Links Investigation: 20% for SL and HL - All students complete a piece of written coursework comparing two pieces which come from different musical cultures: for example, a samba piece and a Britpop song, or an African choral piece and an English Renaissance motet. In spite of the huge surface differences, you will seek to find common elements shared by the two works. • Listening and Analysing: 30% for SL and HL - There is one exam at the end of the course, for all students. Higher Level students have some extension questions to complete.
Entry to the Sixth Form is based upon interview (via video or telephone call, if international), a satisfactory performance in the entrance examination, completion of a 500-word handwritten personal statement and submission of satisfactory school reports and school reference. We would also expect good performance at GCSE (or equivalent). Applicants would normally be required to have obtained a minimum of 5 Grade 6 passes at GCSE (or equivalent). Applicants for the Cambridge Technical course would be expected to achieve Grade 4 passes at GCSE including Maths and English Language, together with 3 other Grade 4s at GCSE. Some international pupils may be required to sit the Oxford Placement test. UK boarders will also be required to complete an overnight trial board if becoming a boarder.
The exam covers two set pieces which you will have studied during the course, and will also ask you to describe unknown extracts which are played to you.
About Education Provider
| Region | North West |
| Local Authority | Lancashire |
| Ofsted Rating | |
| Gender Type | Co-Educational |
| ISI Report | View Report |
| Boarding Fee | Day £25,000; Boarding £37,140 - £42,540 |
| Sixth Form Fee | Unknown |
| Address | Stonyhurst, Clitheroe, BB7 9PZ |
For Standard Level, you select either Performing or Composing. For Higher Level, you must do both. • Performing: 50% for SL option/25% for HL - Your performance, which you work on one-on-one with a teacher, is recorded and assessed throughout the course, and can be on any instrument or voice of your choosing. Expression and interpretation are considered more important than being at a particular grade level. • Composing: 50% for SL option/25% for HL - Higher Level students also undertake composition tasks. These will include free compositions in any style of your choice and short exercises where you will learn to write in a particular style. This is assessed as coursework. • Musical Links Investigation: 20% for SL and HL - All students complete a piece of written coursework comparing two pieces which come from different musical cultures: for example, a samba piece and a Britpop song, or an African choral piece and an English Renaissance motet. In spite of the huge surface differences, you will seek to find common elements shared by the two works. • Listening and Analysing: 30% for SL and HL - There is one exam at the end of the course, for all students. Higher Level students have some extension questions to complete.
Entry to the Sixth Form is based upon interview (via video or telephone call, if international), a satisfactory performance in the entrance examination, completion of a 500-word handwritten personal statement and submission of satisfactory school reports and school reference. We would also expect good performance at GCSE (or equivalent). Applicants would normally be required to have obtained a minimum of 5 Grade 6 passes at GCSE (or equivalent). Applicants for the Cambridge Technical course would be expected to achieve Grade 4 passes at GCSE including Maths and English Language, together with 3 other Grade 4s at GCSE. Some international pupils may be required to sit the Oxford Placement test. UK boarders will also be required to complete an overnight trial board if becoming a boarder.
The exam covers two set pieces which you will have studied during the course, and will also ask you to describe unknown extracts which are played to you.