Music for Teachers

Information from the BBC about their input into the National Music Week BBC LInk

National Music Week

I’ve recently been working with Heather Pringle, Music Co-ordinator at Cleobury Mortimer Primary School in South Shropshire in supporting teaching staff in recognising progress over the key stages. We have provided on Shropshire Digital Brain some statments which will support the Attainment Levels in the National Curriculum which have always been difficult to use since they lack clarity for most of us and certainly for non-music specialists.

We hope these are helpful. They can be found from the file listing on this page within my area (keith.shropshire) of Digital Brain: link

Another very uesful piece of work on assessment in music has been undertaken by Katherine Smith and a team of Primary staff and their work can be found here

Autumn Term 2006Monday October 16th - morning - Developing higher level thinking skills in Music at KS1 and KS2 - (Shrewsbury)

Thursday November 30th - afternoon - Secondary Music Teacher briefing - (Shrewsbury)

Spring Term 2007

Tuesday January 16th - morning - Kick-start your young composers at KS2 - Part 1

Tuesday January 23rd - morning - Roll-over Pythagoras (music, mathematics and patterns)

Tuesday March 6th - morning - Kick-start your young composers at KS2 - Part 2

and

Primary Music and Art co-ordinators briefings repeated in the following locations:

1. Monday March 19th at Whitehouse Hotel, Wellington, Telford - 2.30- 4.30pm (SDG2)

2. Tuesday March 20th at The Bishop Mascal Centre Ludlow - 4.30- 6.00pm

3. Wednesday March 21st at Walford and North Shropshire College - 4.30- 6.00pm

2. Thursday March 22nd at The Priorslee Campus, Telford - 4.30- 6.00pm

For further details please see the shropshire CPD booklets available with the CPD co-ordinator in your school.