Our main aim is to teach our students to communicate with different cultures by using music, which is a universal language in expressing their feelings and thoughts, and to add music to their lives by developing it in line with their interests and abilities, with the idea that a child who receives a good music education and loves music loves life and makes a difference with its aesthetic richness.

At Irmak Schools, one of our main goals is to teach music and music science to our students, to develop our students in line with their interests and abilities, and to raise individuals who enjoy learning through music.

We can list the music education objectives of Irmak Schools as follows:

 • To make people understand that music is a universal language,

• To comprehend the role and importance of music in intercultural communication,

• To raise productive individuals with the information literacy skills required by the information society,

• To raise individuals who are curious about music and the language of music,

• To prepare students for life with music,

• To ensure that students have academic knowledge that will enable them to use and produce new technologies,

• To be able to express the environment, nature, life, feelings and thoughts with music,

• To train and develop students in line with their interests and abilities,

• Developing a critical appreciation,

• To discover, reveal and process general and special musical talent with ear, voice and instrument training.

All our subjects from kindergarten to eleventh grade are covered under the learning fields of Listening – Singing – Playing, Musical Perception and Information, Creativity in Music and Music Culture.

From kindergarten to fourth grade, our students learn the units in the National Education Curriculum as well as the Primary Years Program of the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) with an interdisciplinary and supradisciplinary understanding, targeting specific profiles, attitudes and skills, through music.

Based on the knowledge and experience our students have gained, a spiral approach to develop their knowledge and skills (similar topics are covered every year in a more conceptual and detailed way than the previous one).

In line with the vision of our school, raising students who “use their knowledge and skills”, as well as raising students with high academic success, is at the top of our department goals. In this context, as the music department of Irmak Schools, from kindergarten to high school education, our students should first be good music listeners, gain a musical taste and instrument skill as they get older, with the education they receive in music lessons in line with our school’s understanding of art, and learn their feelings and thoughts on music in the social areas they enter. We care about their ability to express them in a musical language in terms of skills.

All subjects from kindergarten to fourth; Playing, singing, listening and creating skills are covered with a spiral approach (similar topics are covered more conceptually and in detail each year than the previous one).

It is aimed for our kindergarten and first grade students to define and make sense of sounds, to imitate the sounds they hear around them with their voices/instruments, and to sing school songs correctly. In these classes, music education is taught through games. It is aimed to teach “Basic Music Writing and Elements” by starting basic music education in our first grade. Our aim in the melodica education, which is a wind instrument that starts from the first grade and continues until the third grade, starting from the first grade until the branch education (instrument education), which is started to be applied in the third grades, first of all, to improve the diaphragm of the students, to facilitate the transition to the piano, which is the basic instrument, and of course to ensure that they acquire the basis of note literacy at these ages.

As Irmak Schools, we believe and support music education “Every student should play an instrument and every student who graduates from Irmak Schools can play at least one instrument.” Starting from the third grade of primary school, instrument education takes place with 4 instruments (violin,  flute, guitar and cello). Our aim in branch education is to increase our students’ knowledge of instruments, to enable them to express their feelings and thoughts with the instrument they have learned through music, and to enable them to share their knowledge and skills individually or by participating in musical groups in different social areas.