Music
Subject Introduction
Overall Aims of Music Curriculum
- (Please refer to Chinese version.)
Learning Targets
Achieving the Four Learning Targets through Listening, Performing and Creating
- Developing Creativity and Imagination
- Develop music ideas and acquire creating skills, together with performing and listening, to cultivate creativity and imagination;
- Developing Music Skills and Processes
- Develop performing skills to experience and express music, with emphasis on cultivating music imagination and musicality in practice;
- Cultivating Critical Responses in Music
- Comprehend, respond to and appraise music so as to nurture aesthetic sensitivity and awareness; and
- Understanding Music in Context
- Understand the functions of music and the relationship between music and cultures.
Subject Activities
Composers Program
- Appreciate the music of the great composer and introduce its background to let students know different great composers. For example: Mozart, Beethoven, Saint-Sang, etc.
Internal Music Activities
- Handchime School Team
- School Choir
- Little Music Bean
- African Drum
- Rainbow bells
External Music Activities
- Hong Kong Schools’ Music Festival
- Joint School Music Competition
- School Culture Day Scheme
Rhythm Program
- In P.1-2, the rhythm program is promoted to enhance students' sense of rhythm.
Composing Program
- In P.3-4, the creative program is promoted to enhance students' creativity.
Music Appreciation Program
- In P.5-6, the appreciation program is promoted to enhance students' ability to enjoy music by themselves.
Performance Program
- Introduce Cantonese Opera courses in the P.4, through the study of Cantonese opera performance classes, singing, and percussion lessons, to cultivate students' cultural literacy and to experience and appreciate music and the rich heritage of Chinese culture.
- In P.5-6, the performance program is promoted to enhance students to perform confidently using real musical instruments and electronic devices.
