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Live Music Now’s Musician in Residence project
Live Music Now has been working in Princes Primary School in Liverpool since January 2013 as part of a Youth Music-funded Musicians in Residence programme. The programme aims to support […]
Category Archives: Learning & Participation
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My deaf child and learning to play music
Vijeeth and his dad Vijay tell us about his deafness and learning to play the guitar. Find out more about childhood deafness on our website: http://www.ndcs.org.uk/
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LooperDooper – musical ownership & access
The two short films below are from the MUSE ‘Listening Aloud’ project at New Fosseway School Bristol and Threeways School Bath (2013). The films show musical activity in school using […]
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Music Teacher of the Year Award
Congratulations to Jocelyn Watkins for winning Classic FM SEN Music Teacher of the Year! Jocelyn teaches the Drake Music ‘Introduction to Music’ course at Treloar School, Hampshire.
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Music in other subjects in SEN schools
This short film is from the MUSE ‘Listening Aloud’ project at New Fosseway and Briarwood Schools in Bristol and Threeways School in Bath (2013). The film shows musical activity in school […]
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Open Orchestra
Open Orchestra is a project led by Drake Music together with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Royal College of Music. Together we are delivering a new schools project working with children from SEN and mainstream schools.
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A great first-time experience as Music Associate at Rumworth School, Bolton
Rumworth School is a SEN/D school, set in a pleasant suburban estate on the outskirts of Bolton. They work with children with a wide range of learning and physical impairments and have a great attitude to teaching and learning, with a real positive bent towards the arts and developing media skills.
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A year in the South West
The publication of the National Plan for Music Education and the formation of new Music Hubs across the region, made 2012-13 an exciting year for Drake Music.
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Pots and pans make perfect partners for percussion play
This was originally posted as a blog by Sam Procter (a teacher at The Milestone School in Gloucester), but it’s such a great example of how the Sounds of Intent […]
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Opera North Education – Octave Project
Opera North Education tailored a four week project of singing, song writing and movement work for a class of KS2 children with ASC (Autism Spectrum Disorder) in Leeds. The theme […]
