At Our Lady Queen of Martyrs, we believe that the teaching of music helps pupils to access this wonderous universal language which can be used to inspire and speak to others. Music allows pupils to develop listening skills and develop their own creative expressions of emotions and story-telling beyond words.

This enables us to live, love and learn the beauty and power of creative works.

Music is a sacred subject:

• The universal language of Music embodies and gives expression to one of the highest forms of creativity and communication
• The transformational power of music offers all learners a channel to discover their God-given talents
• Music endeavours to enable pupils to give expression to the heights and the depths of their emotions
• It can embody pupils’ hopes and longings and may transcend limitations found in other forms of communication

Music enables pupils to know the universal story they are a part of:

• Story Past – the power of music to impact cultures and peoples of the past often being used to tell stories
• Story Present – the use of music to contribute and emotionally move people to consider current social, moral and political issues as well as a means of individual and collective expression
• Story Future – how music can evoke images of the future and prophesy it in to being