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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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Sounds of Intent – halfway through a 16 week course
This was originally posted as a blog by Jon Hering, but it’s such a great example of how the Sounds of Intent framework can be used to assess musical activity […]
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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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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 […]
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Music in other subjects in SEN schools
This short film is from the MUSE ‘Listening Aloud’ project at New Fosseway and Briarwood Schools in Bristol and Threeways School in Bath (2013). The film shows musical activity in school […]
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Autism has Talent says Beverley School Choir
Beverley School is a specialist school and college in Middlesbrough for pupils with Autism and has a very successful school choir. All members of the choir have severe autism with […]
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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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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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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 […]
