Year 8 - Assessments 9, 10, 11 & 12

Folk Music - Medieval music

A stylistic, relaxed
performance Ass 11 –
Performing Ass.11 Notation
Ass. 11 - Stylised composition of composition
performance
A fluent and
nearly accurate Excellent understanding
Understands & of notated pitch &
rendition
displays sense of style rhythm

A few Demonstrates a good

Evidence of a good
stumbles understanding of notated
understanding of
pitch & rhythm
stylistic features

Some understanding of
Minimal evidence of notated pitch & rhythm
stylistic features Some
mistakes

No evidence of Struggling to understand Ass.10 –

stylistic features notated pitch & rhythm
Ass. 12 - Appraising ensemble

Sophisticated Good use Responds Little use of A little Mostly in time Mostly in Listening
use of of to prompts appropriate awareness of with others time with well to
language & language language others with support others others
connections
made
Little contribution A little Little contribution
and little variety awareness of and little variety
others
Minimal attempt to create
an interesting performance
Minimal attempt to create with variety
an interesting performance
with variety Mostly in time
with others
with support Contributed well to a performance
Contributed well to a performance with variety and interest
with variety and interest

Excellent package Excellent package

presented, interesting and presented, interesting and
Mostly in time varied in more than 1
varied in more than 1
with others Element of music
Element of music

Ass.9 -Folk
Ass. 10 –
arrangement Listening well to Heritage piece
others

Ass.9 -Ensemble
Your next step
If you aren’t on the outer ring your next step is to get there
Contribution – listen to music at home with a view of what
could you bring from that music into your arrangement
In time: Try to play holding a steady beat
Try to develop a stronger sense of pulse (internal tick-tock) In Music  
Ensemble – try listening or watching others while you play Bronze means you are still trying to get the hang of it.  
to stay in time Silver means you can do it at a basic level  
Try verbalising your part and saying it as you play Gold –you have achieved it 
Platinum you are exceeding.