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Students imitating rhythms in a SOI session
This video was taken during a music session at Abbots Lea Assessment Centre during a Drake Music Sounds of Intent session. It illustrates a few things about the sessions that […]
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Using Pitched Bells as an Interactive Music Tool for Sounds of Intent Assessment
This video clip shows an extract from a session at ‘Abbots Lea at Matthew Arnold’ – a specialised assessment service for pupils aged 3 – 7 years with complex needs. […]
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What we shared in January 2014
In my last post I shared some details about Drake Music’s sharing and amplifying ‘experiment’ in which colleagues are aiming to share at least one thing about their work, both internally and externally, for the next couple of months.
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More Musical Adventures in Manchester
The Prospectors are a 12-strong band of disabled musicians who’ve been meeting once a week in Heaton Moor near Stockport for over 6 years
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Drake Music’s sharing and amplifying ‘experiment’
Over the last few months, I have been working with colleagues on ‘experiments’ using social technology to help us better share our work internally and externally.
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Chance Composition in a RampItUp!
A happy accident meant that Belvue School in Ealing started DM’s classic RampItUp! programme at the same time as enrolling six of its students on our Introduction to Music course
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Sounds of Intent – halfway through a 16 week course
This was originally posted as a blog by Jon Hering, but it’s such a great example of how the Sounds of Intent framework can be used to assess musical activity […]
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Time-banking as an initiative for supporting disabled artists/musicians
At a Connect & Collaborate London – Drake Music event at Shape Arts in March 2013, my aim was to involve 25 disabled artists/musicians as a focus group to help us to develop possibilities for finding and establishing structures for support for disabled composers, artists and musicians across London.
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Drake Music’s response to latest Ofsted music report
Ofsted’s failure to visit any special schools as part of their recent report into Music Hubs and schools threatens to undermine the vision laid out in the National Plan
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Introduction to Music at Treloar School
In this short film students and staff from Treloar School share their experiences of taking Drake Music’sIntroduction to Music course. When SEN Music Teacher Jocelyn Watkins contacted Drake Music in 2010 […]