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Home is where the music is – Tracks
Enjoy tracks created online with young children and their families
Tag Archives: Early Years Foundation Stage
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Home is where the music is – an Early Years music project with Soundcastle
Making music online with families during the pandemic. A new project for Drake Music, in partnership with Soundcastle.
Discussion
Reimagining Creativity at Manchester Metropolitan University
Recently I’ve attended two MMU led events that I found particularly interesting, both of which broadly examined ‘human’ ways of being, notions of creativity and human flourishing. In connection […]
Resources
LooperDooper music resources
LooperDooper can help pretty much anyone make music including musicians with a range of special educational needs and disabilities. It has been co-designed by students and staff members at three […]
Discussion
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 […]
Discussion
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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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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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 […]
