Our opinions and what we do in music...

Here at Broughton, we have an excellent Music Department. I have come to this decision easily after considering all the different topics covered in my first three years at the school and the practical activities which we are able to take part in. We are taught standard musical notation is taught straight from the first lesson and it is quite easy to understand and grasp in the way our teachers express and deliver the information. We each have a keyboard to play and practice on as well as MIDI workstations and rack synthesisers.

We are taught about all the different families of instruments (woodwind, percussion, brass etc.), the parts of many of the instruments and have tests every six months on what we have just learnt. We are taught to understand and appreciate different styles of music from rock to jazz, classical, medieval, pop (modern) etc and are given the opportunity to compose and perform, on our own or in groups, our own compositions in these different styles.

The Broughton High School Concert Band and other musical performance groups

I love being in the School Concert band. I play the drums! I think this because we all have a good friendship with the other members and basically it's very much fun while we all get a chance to improve on our playing. We have some thirty members with new ones joining every September. As it is a concert band we don't just have brass instruments. We have flutes, clarinets as part of the woodwind section and keyboard.
We play many different kinds of music from music like 'Yesterday' by the Beetles to the rock piece 'The Flintstones' not to mention subtle pieces like Emperor Waltz. Our band is building up an excellent reputation and has been invited and played at many public events including the unveiling of a new Fiesta at Evans Halshaw (Ford) back in 1995, performances at the local shopping centre, at private functions and at Botany Bay leisure villages near Chorley, Lancashire.