Music

At Stormont School, we aim to ignite a girl’s lifelong love of music. Through performance, composition and listening response we will help her to discover and engage with her own creativity and self-expression.

All girls participate in two class Music Lessons and a whole school Singing Assembly each week with a specialist teacher, following a Scheme designed for the Stormont Girls.

Over their time at Stormont, girls are receiving tuition on a variety of instruments and composition techniques and develop their musicianship skills. This allows them to perform a variety of given pieces as well as exploring, composing, and recording their own compositions. The instruments used within classroom music are tuned and non-tuned percussion, including the hand bells and Djembe, descant recorder, ukuleles, steel pans, and the voice.

All girls in Prep School are welcome, and encouraged, to join a Music Club, whether Stormont Singers, orchestra, string group, recorder ensemble, rock band, theory group, or the special event choir.

Girls are also encouraged to celebrate their talents and musical creativity through public performance.  This includes in the weekly Celebration Assembly, harvest festival, Pre-Prep Nativity, Prep carol service, class assemblies and the arts festival. All Girls also participate musically within special events such as community sing-alongs, concerts at local care homes and interschool music events and competitions.

From Year 2 girls are welcome to specialise on a specific musical instrument through taking an extra individual lessons with a Visiting Music Teachers. These lessons will aid the pupil to develop their love and skills of music with a specific instrument and, if they wish, may work towards a Music Exam. We currently offer lessons in voice, clarinet, flute, oboe, recorder, trumpet, trombone, guitar, violin, drumkit and piano.

Music gives a Soul to the Universe, Wings to the Mind, Flight to the Imagination and Life to Everything.

Plato
Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.
Leonard Bernstein

How to find
Stormont School

The Causeway,
Potters Bar,
Herts,
EN6 5HA
01707 654037