Music

Notes for the first (yellow) level and the second (green) level of Music Explorer are available as pdf files as follows:

 yellow level notes and green level notes

This terms briefings for art and/or Music co-ordinators will be as follows:

Shrewsbury Training and Development Centre - March 15th 4:15

Bishop Mascall Centre Ludlow - March 20th 4:15

Walford and North Shropshire College Oswestry - March 21st 4:1

University Campus Priorslee March 22nd - 4:15

The main focus of the agenda will be self and peer assessment.

A few places left on the music and mathematics course on Tuesday 23rd January 2007 in Shrewsbury. The morning course will explore the use of patterns in music and mathematics through a wide range of practical activities, also looking at higher level thinking and will have direct application to the creative classroom. Contact the Shropshire Advisory Service for further details.

Post-course note: The course provided some good practical composition work which has been recorded onto CD and copied for course members. Materials used on the course are available on my Digitalbrain site at this link

The course will be repeated next year - watch this space for details.

The government have announced this week that there will be new money for music education to support vocal work in schools.  This sum of £10m (for the nation) will not provide a huge sum for each LA but is a positive move which I applaud.

The Shropshire Music Service will be working with headteachers in all SDG groups to see what impact we can make and new opportunities we can provide in supporting this new initiative.

More information via the BBC

I’ve placed some photos of Shrewsbury’s most recent flood this week in my area of Shropshire.Digitalbrain.com (keith.shropshire) - they might be useful as stimulus for musical composition. Feel free to use them.
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Other photographs of mine which are available for school use are at my Flickr account

Flickr link

Following recent work at the Sir John Talbot School and Technology College, colleagues might find the following summary very useful of the main characteristics of Assessment for Learning - link