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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 […]
Tag Archives: Key Stage 3
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Exchanging Notes: A New Model of Peripatetic Music Lessons
Exchanging Notes is a Youth Music funded, 4 year project between Drake Music, Ealing Music Partnership and Belvue School, working with young people with SEND at KS3/4 with moderate or severe learning difficulties, and particularly those facing disabling barriers to music.
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Exchanging Notes: Balancing Formal and Non-formal Outcomes, Delivery and Assessment
“ Conflict, difference of opinion, is the very essence of music: in the balance, in the dynamic, in the way that the music is written… Music teaches us our capacity to bring all the different elements together in a sense of proportion so that they lead to a sense of a whole, and this is what I feel in my own subjective way is one of the main lessons that I have learned from music” – Daniel Barenboim
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Brilliant Connections – A short film about music hubs and special schools
This film is called ‘Brilliant Connections’ and discusses how music hubs can best support special schools (NB: if you experience ‘buffering’ issues, click on ‘Pause’ button and wait approx. 45 […]
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The power of Arts Award in SEND settings
The Funky Pie Company are a diverse team of artists who love to share their skills, knowledge and enthusiasm with others (NB The film will begin playing automatically) The Funky […]
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Teachmeet Event on SEN/D music and good practice (Music Expo 2014)
Here is a ‘Storify’ blog about the Drake Music Teachmeet discussing good practice in SEN/D Music Education at the Music Expo 2014. It includes video footage of some of the […]
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Using iPads for the first time in a SEN school
These two short films show iPads being used in music sessions for the first time with young people on the Autistic spectrum at Uplands SEN School in Swindon (Jan – […]
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Introduction to Music at Treloar School
In this short film students and staff from Treloar School share their experiences of taking Drake Music’sIntroduction to Music course. When SEN Music Teacher Jocelyn Watkins contacted Drake Music in 2010 […]
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My deaf child and learning to play music
Vijeeth and his dad Vijay tell us about his deafness and learning to play the guitar. Find out more about childhood deafness on our website: http://www.ndcs.org.uk/
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LooperDooper – musical ownership & access
The two short films below are from the MUSE ‘Listening Aloud’ project at New Fosseway School Bristol and Threeways School Bath (2013). The films show musical activity in school using […]
