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 […]
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 […]
It has been my pleasure to co-facilitate a number of music technology workshops for Drake Music since the start of the year. This is an awesome job; meeting and creating […]
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 […]
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.
“ 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
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 […]
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 […]
Students from Ash Field Academy perform a rhythm piece as part of their BTEC and Introduction to Music work (NB: the video will begin playing automatically beneath the accompanying text) […]
Year 10 students at Great Oaks SEN School in Southampton use iPads to great effect in this rehearsal performance. Jonathan Westrup talks to their inspirational music teacher Kellyjo Peters. MORE […]
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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