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Videos are changing the discussion around SEN/D and music
A key issue for music hubs working to meet the needs of SEND children and young people is: what does effective practice look/ sound like?
Category Archives: Music Education
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Andrew Cleaton at The Music Education Expo
In March of 2013 I attended the Music Education Expo at which I had the opportunity to speak at the Drake Music TeachMeet. I – along with a number of […]
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Call & Echo – Accessible Singing At Stephen Hawking School, London
In this video the Teacher and Teaching Assistants are doing a ‘call & echo’ singing activity with 5 pupils, during a Drake Music/Sounds Of Intent session at the school. They are […]
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Accessible Singing At Stephen Hawking School – Using Sounds Of Intent
Natalie is a pupil at Stephen Hawking School in Limehouse, London. In this video she is participating in call and response, singing a song called ‘Nanuma‘, which is a traditional […]
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Sounds Of Intent Session – Amy playing the electric guitar using iPad app Thumb Jam
This video is from one of the Sounds Of Intent sessions currently taking place at Cherry Garden School in Bermondsey, London. In the video, Amy is playing the electric guitar […]
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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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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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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 […]
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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 […]
