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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.
Tag Archives: Early Years Foundation Stage
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 […]
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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 […]
Discussion
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 […]
