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Ian plays the Soundbeam (and rocks out to Nirvana…)
Background This film clip is from a Drake Music BTEC Performing Arts session at Claremont Secondary Special School in Bristol. The school caters for children from 2 to 19 years old […]
Category Archives: Learning & Participation
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Teaching assistant leading a song in a special school
Background This film clip is from a Drake Music RAMPitUp! session at Paternoster Community Special School in Cirencester. In the film a teaching assistant acts as conductor for a song […]
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Symphonic Surfing
The Open Orchestra project- a collaboration between Drake Music and the BBC that brings together six schools to compose for the BBC Symphony Orchestra- has provided a platform to road test some new assistive music technologies that aim to get to the heart of harmonic composition.
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Music and Dyslexia
The British Dyslexia Association and Music Teacher Magazine have produced an excellent ‘Teacher Guide To Music And Dyslexia’ which is available to download as a PDF file here: www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/files/music_teacher_guide_music_and_dyslexia.pdf The […]
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The Brazilian Connection goes live
Today, Drake Music and the Brazilian NGO Mais Diferenças are making face-to-face contact via Skype, and a significant cultural exchange is taking place.
Resources
PCS symbols for composing music
This resource is designed to enable students who face communication difficulties to issue clear instructions when composing music using a music software sequencing programme like Garageband or Audacity (you can […]
Discussion
Claremont Students make their Bristol Debut!!
Tuesday 22nd May 2012 was a very exciting day for 6 students from Claremont Secondary School in Bristol. They were to perform live on the stage in Millennium Square in […]
Updates
Short film: DM musician Ray De Grussa wins Adult Learners’ Week Award
Ray De Grussa mastered using specialist computer software to achieve his ambition of composing music, despite his many impairments.
Discussion
Ofsted SEN film case study: Whitefield Schools and Centre
This 15 minute film is part of the five ‘Best Practice’ case studies made to accompany the 2012 Ofsted report into Music Education (‘Music in schools: wider still, and wider’)… […]
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Disabling barriers to formal music education – consultation
In Autumn 2011, DM Education carried out a nationwide consultation into disabling barriers to formal music education. The consultation findings are posted here in the ‘Experiences’ section of the DM […]
