Our theme in the final term of Exchanging Notes at Belvue School is “music outside the classroom”: exploring different ways of making music, and how the young musicians involved can […]
During the spring term at Belvue School we have been exploring what music can look and sound like outside the classroom. Young musicians have played in assemblies, made music in […]
This reflection was originally written for a presentation I gave at the last annual Exchanging Notes partner’s meeting, hosted by BCU in March this 2018. Over the last few years […]
For the last three years Drake Music has been partnering with Belvue School (a SEN/D specialist school in Ealing) as part of the Youth Music funded Exchanging Notes programme. Through […]
Exchanging Notes is a Youth Music funded, 4 year project between three key partners – Drake Music, Ealing Music Partnership and Belvue school. The project works with young disabled people […]
A new fun piece of DIY tech built at Belvue School
Exchanging Notes is a four year Youth Music-funded initiative to establish effective models of partnership-working between school and specialist music education providers in order to: Enable young people at risk […]
The first year of our Youth Music funded Exchanging Notes project was ambitious, involved many unknowns and experiments, yet was a real success in terms of participant enjoyment, learning outcomes, […]
Drake Music are lucky to be one of ten organisations that are part of Youth Music’s Exchanging Notes programme. Each Exchanging Notes project (a partnership between a school and specialist […]
Exchanging Notes is a Youth Music funded, 4 year project between Drake Music, Ealing Music Partnership and Belvue School, working with young people with SEND at KS3/4 with moderate or severe learning difficulties, and particularly those facing disabling barriers to music.
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