IB Music Takes to the Stage!

The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme offers a complete Sixth Form education enabling participants to explore six subject choices and discover their strengths in Creativity, Activity, Service (CAS), learn about Theory of Knowledge (TOK) and undertake an Extended Essay (EE) of up to 4,000 on their choice of topic. Our enthusiastic Lower Sixth IB cohort delivered an inspiring introduction to this globally renowned academic qualification during Collects on Monday 19^th and Tuesday 20^th January, giving all members of the Leighton Park community the opportunity to gain first-hand insight into the flexibility of the programme.

Taylor and Romeo, two of our talented IB Music students, also showcased their latest project, a work collaboratively designed with Drama students and centred around the relationship between Iago, Cassio and Othello in Shakespeare’s tragedy. At Higher Level, IB Music students embrace the experience of composing and performing an original soundtrack to a stage show extract, taking complete responsibility for organising the event including booking the venue and liaising with the Tech Crew. The performance was undertaken as Taylor and Romeo’s mock for the Contemporary Music Maker unit of the IB and the final piece will be worth 20% of their grade in this subject.

Rosemary Scales, Director of Music and IB Music teacher, reflected: “IB Music is a really exciting course because there is no exam and everything is based on an online journal. It’s scientific, it’s experimentation, it’s performing, it’s creating. They have to collaborate with all different types of music, including globally. I would definitely recommend it; it’s very different to A Level Music: more scientific and reflective; more like university.”

Leighton Park has recently been celebrated as a Top 10 Small Cohort UK IB School based on the school’s summer 2025 results. Find out more at about the IB at Leighton Park.