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GCSE Music

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The literacy load sits in the Unit 3 listening paper, where learners give short and extended typed answers on set works and unseen extracts using a long glossary of musical terms, and in the Unit 2 reflective log, which asks them to evaluate their own composing. Numeracy is built into reading and writing music: note values as fractions of a beat, simple and compound time signatures, counting intervals, numbering chords and working to set timings and tempos in BPM. The biggest thing Key Stage 3 should build is the habit of listening closely and then writing precise, well-organised sentences that use the correct musical term, backed by secure rhythm notation.

Corff dyfarnu
CBAC
Lefel
Level 1 and Level 2
Addysgu gyntaf
Medi 2025
Faint o waith llythrennedd
Canolig
Faint o waith rhifedd
Canolig
Manyleb
Agor y fanyleb
Sut mae'r cymhwyster hwn yn cael ei asesu
  • Unit 1: Performing: Non-examination assessment, performance of 4-6 minutes (at least two pieces), marked by the centre and moderated by WJEC, 32.5%, 78 marks
  • Unit 2: Composing: Non-examination assessment, 2 compositions (3-6 minutes total recommended) and a reflective log, marked by the centre and moderated by WJEC, 32.5%, 78 marks
  • Unit 3: Appraising: Digital only examination 1 hour 30 minutes, marked by WJEC, 35%, 84 marks

Sgiliau sy'n defnyddio Deall, ymateb a dadansoddi

  1. Comparing pieces and researching their context

    Asesu: Yn yr arholiad

    Learners must make links between pieces in different styles and genres and judge how effective the elements are. For the two set works they must also know the social, cultural and historical context, which means reading and summarising background sources.

    Llythrennedd: Deall, ymateb a dadansoddi

    Paratoi disgyblion

    Blwyddyn 7
    Pupils read a short fact sheet about cerdd dant, highlight three facts and write one sentence on how the performance style links to Welsh tradition.
    Blwyddyn 8
    Pupils use a programme note and a music website to find out when and why Stevie Wonder wrote Sir Duke, noting which source they trust more and why.
    Blwyddyn 9
    Pupils compare a Baroque concerto with a Welsh pop song in a table of the elements of music and write a conclusion on their links and differences.
    Dangos geiriad y fanyleb a datganiadau'r Fframwaith Llythrennedd a Rhifedd

    Ble mae yn y fanyleb: Unit 3: Appraising, overview, page 14; Section 1.3.2, page 15

    “identify links between different pieces of music in terms of the use of the elements of music”
    Cam cynnydd 3

    • Rwy'n gallu coladu a gwneud cysylltiadau, e.e blaenoriaethu, categoreiddio, rhwng gwybodaeth a syniadau o wahanol ffynonellau gan gynnwys testunau digidol a chlyweledol.

    • Rwy'n gallu defnyddio ffynonellau cyfeirio/digidol i ddewis, crynhoi a chyfuno gwybodaeth, gan gyfeirio atyn nhw fel y bo'n briodol.

    Cam cynnydd 4

    • Rwy'n gallu cymharu a gwrthgyferbynnu themâu a materion mewn amrywiaeth o destunau gan gynnwys testunau digidol a chlyweledol.

    • Rwy'n gallu ymchwilio i amrywiaeth eang o ffynonellau cyfeirio a digidol er mwyn datblygu dealltwriaeth lawn o bwnc neu fater.

    Cam cynnydd 5

    • Rwy'n gallu cymharu a gwrthgyferbynnu themâu a syniadau mewn amrywiaeth o destunau yn hyderus, gan gynnwys testunau digidol a chlyweledol, gan ystyried sut maen nhw'n amrywio o ran diben ac effaith.

    • Rwy'n gallu ymchwilio'n annibynnol i amrywiaeth eang o ffynonellau er mwyn datblygu dealltwriaeth o bwnc neu fater cynyddol gymhleth.

Da gwybod

Cysylltiadau â chymwysterau eraill

Appendix A ticks all four literacy strands and three numeracy strands (all except statistics and probability) across Units 1 to 3, pages 22 and 23.

Ffynhonnell: WJEC GCSE Music specification, teaching from 2025, for award from 2027, © WJEC CBAC Ltd. 2024 (no version number printed).