Updates
Compose & Perform Success 2018!
The 2017-18 academic year has finished with great success for our Compose and Perform course. Nearly 100 students – all of whom face barriers to music – have achieved accredited […]
Category Archives: Learning & Participation
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Discussion
Exchanging Notes: Music Outside the Classroom, Part 2
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 […]
Resources
Arts Award webinar – Using Arts Award to accredit music for disabled young people
On March 1st this year, Drake Music and Trinity College London hosted a one hour webinar on ‘Using Arts Award to accredit music for disabled young people’ as part of our series of […]
Discussion
Instrument development in schools: a portable switch box
We’re now in the final term of the Rhapsody in Ealing/Exchanging Notes project at Belvue School, and things are hotting up. Over the last few weeks, we’ve been working with […]
Resources
Released: We All Make Music GUIDE
Today we are proud to release the We All Make Music GUIDE. Download it here: We All Make Music 2018 GUIDE – Online The Guide aims to help the music […]
Discussion
Music outside the classroom (Exchanging Notes), part 1: gamelan
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 […]
Discussion
Further use of iPads in workshops
This blog post forms part of a series of technology-based pieces from the Exchanging Notes project, in which we share resources that have worked well in our accessible music sessions at Belvue School and […]
Discussion
Honesty and dialog: learning from Exchanging Notes at Belvue School
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 […]
Updates
2018 Music Teacher Magazine Award Winners!
We are thrilled to be able to say that Drake Music, in partnership with Drake Music Scotland and MEC, are winners of a 2018 Music Teacher Award for Excellence! The […]
