A source of World music CD’s is not always readily available locally so I hope this list of some website worth visiting will be useful - please feel free to add others. Here’s the link
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.
Try this online glossary to support music groups from KS2 level and onwards.
I attended an end of year concert on June 22nd, for the seven primary schools who are taking part in the shole class violin tuition through the Shropshire Music Service. It was a magnificent event with over 150 students showing what progress thet had made - they performed with enthusiasm and style to a full house at the Shrewsbury Music Hall.
This has been a very successful initiative and has been developed as a scheme for woodwind and brass as well in other primary schools in Shropshire. Further details from the Shropshire Music Service.
Stokesay Primary School presented an excellent concert this week which surely shows them to be in the forefront of muscial inclusion as they showcased a policy of opportunity for all.
With the support of colleagues from the Shropshire Music Service, Dot Atkins, David Glossop and Glenn Pollard, the staff and children of the school presented a programme listing over 90 children sharing with parents their progress over the last few terms in vocal and instrumental music.
Children sang and played trumpets, tormbones, cornets, recorders, flutes, clarinets and guitars showing off their achievements since beginning lessons in September 2006 or for some, 2005.
Musical materials had been carefully selected for the instrumentalists to show the progress made from beginners to more experienced ensemble work. The children who performed are just a representative sample of musicians in the school. While all the performers gave of their best and performed with enthusiasm, i must single out Daniel Meikle who sang and accompanied himself on the guitar. He showed great confidence and musical control as, alone, he faced the audience armed only with an acoustic guitar. Well done, Daniel.
The choir sang some excerpts from a musical they have prepared for an area musical collaboration. Again a wonderful opportunity for small rural schools to get together to provide opportunities for creativity for their children.
Congratualations to all children and staff.
Notes for the first (yellow) level and the second (green) level of Music Explorer are available as pdf files as follows:
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.
As a result of some work I’ve recently undertaken with a primary school, it reminds me that I placed some time ago on the website a series of ideas for getting started to support clarity of learning objective when teaching composition. While these starters are not fully formed lessons they may be none the less useful for teachers who are lesson clear about the direction to take to support composition. Although the National Curriculum (for music) has been around for nearly 10 years I think the area of composition is very much disregarded, while the national debate centres on vocal work.
Feel free to contact me for further help with composition.
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