Details of music courses available locally for Shropshire teachers can be found at this link.
Why not consider an away-from-it-all weekend of creativity in a gentle and relaxed atmosphere? Details here.
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.
National training takes place on November 9th and 10th of the new initiative for the National Strategy specific to Music at KS3.
The launch for Shropshire Secondary Schools will be for all secondary music staff on Friday December 1st 1:15 - 4:00pm at the Shrewsbury Training and Development Centre on Racecourse Crescent, Monkmoor, Shrewsbury. At this launch the new materials will be available for all schools and will be subject to explanation and discussion. A strategy for ongoing support will also be discussed.
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.
Course Title: Developing Higher Level Thinking Skills in Music at Key Stages 1 & 2
Course Date: 16/10/2006
Times: 09:15 - 12:00
Venue: Shrewsbury Training & Development Centre
Course Leader: Keith Havercroft
9.15 – Introduction
9.30 – Session 1: A series of practical activities in listening, performing and composing, which provide opportunities for the development of higher level thinking skills at KS1 and KS2
10.45 – break
11.00 – Session 2: Developing strategies to maximise the focus on thinking skills and transferring ideas across the curriculum
11.50 – Summary and evaluation
12.00 course ends
Course members are asked to bring along an instrument which can will enable you to play a rhythm and an instrument which will enable you to play a melody (e.g. a tambourine and a xylophone etc.. )
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