This course is optional
The National 5 Music Technology course encourages candidates to become successful, independent and creative in their use of technologies and to develop attributes and capabilities including creativity, flexibility and adaptability; enthusiasm and a willingness to learn; perseverance, independence and resilience; responsibility and reliability; confidence and enterprise. The course engages candidates through practical music-technology-based activities and tasks which are supported by knowledge and understanding of music technology and muCreative Industries: An Introduction
Creative Industries: Skills Development
Creative Industries: The Creative Process
Creative Industries: Creative Project (School Show)
Creative Industries: An Introduction (National 5) The unit introduces learners to different sectors of the creative industries and the career paths, job roles and responsibilities of those working within the industry. The unit will raise awareness of the employability skills and qualifications required by the industry. It also focuses on the generic skills and attitudes valued by employers and provides opportunities for learners to evaluate their own progress, taking into account peer and teacher/lecturer feedback, and to set targets to improve their employability profile. The unit allows learners to work on practical tasks such as gathering industry and career information, matching their career interests to job requirements and evaluating their personal employability skills for the creative industries.
Creative Industries: Skills Development (National 5) The focus of this unit is primarily on practical activity. It is designed to allow learners the opportunity to practise and develop their craft and improve practical skills associated with a chosen job role in the creative industries. The learner will be required to set targets, plan and use a variety of approaches to develop their practical skills in a creative working environment. The unit requires learners to seek feedback from others and evaluate the effectiveness of the approaches used.
Creative Industries: The Creative Process (National 5) The focus of this unit is creative thinking and collaborative working. The unit will provide learners with an awareness of the key stages of a creative process. Learners will be given a brief to interpret, and they will contribute their own creative ideas to an overall team response. Learners will be encouraged through discussion to explore different solutions to the given brief. They will work collaboratively to prepare and present a team response to the given brief. Learners will also evaluate the team response to the brief.
Creative Industries: Creative Project (National 5) The focus of this unit is primarily on practical activity carried out in a creative context. Learners will work as part of a team throughout the planning and implementation of a creative project to a given brief. Learners will contribute to and participate in all stages of the implementation of a creative project and evaluate the completed project and their contribution to it. This unit encourages the learner to use creative processes to plan, implement and evaluate a creative project. This unit will give learners the opportunity to develop their creativity alongside key employability skills such as working with others and problem solving.
sic concepts, form and structures. The course enables candidates to develop their practical technical skills and creative use of music technology in a range of contexts. It includes opportunities for personalisation and choice in selecting varied contexts for learning. Candidates develop the ability to express themselves through music, which supports creativity and independence. The course encourages candidates to critically reflect on their learning and the quality of their work.
N5/H Drama
NPA Acting & Performance (L6)
NPA Musical Theatre (L6)
The National 5 Skills for Work Creative Industries course is designed to provide a qualification which reflects the knowledge and skills required for employment/further study in the wide range of sectors in the creative industries. It also develops an awareness of the opportunities and range of employment within a chosen sector. The course will enable learners to develop practical skills together with employability skills and attitudes needed to work in the creative industries. It is anticipated that the course will establish or help build on existing partnerships between schools, further education colleges, employers and training providers. Such partnerships will enable the course to be delivered in a variety of appropriate learning environments with access to relevant teaching and industry expertise.
Continual assessment throughout the course via written, oral and practical tasks. No end exam.
To take this course, pupils must sign up to take part in the school show. They must have an involvement and commitment to the school show in an extra-curricular capacity, attending rehearsals on Mondays & Tuesdays after school 3:30-6:30pm between August and December.