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Liverpool Music Education Hub Hosts SEN/D Focus Group
On Monday 25th June Jonathan Dickson, head of Liverpool Music Education Hub, hosted a focus group exploring SEN/D music provision in Liverpool.
Discussion
How hard is it to register disabled students for BTEC Performing Arts?
I’m currently working with seven SEND students at a secondary special school in Bristol. When the school tried to become an EDEXCEL centre they were told that the numbers of students projected to take BTEC Performing Arts in the following years would be too small for it to qualify.
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Crossing into Yesterday – wish I could.
Yesterday at lunch time, I crossed into another place when I went to this engaging performance which was commissioned by Drake Music and produced in partnership with THAMES, Kazzum and Furtherfield is inspired by the stories and exhibitions at the Ragged School Museum in east London.
Updates
Short film: DM musician Ray De Grussa wins Adult Learners’ Week Award
Ray De Grussa mastered using specialist computer software to achieve his ambition of composing music, despite his many impairments.
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How do we plan for SEN/D students’ musical progression?
A few perspectives re: music and progression for SEN/ Disabled students:
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DM Musician Ray De Grussa Wins Adult Learners’ Week Digital Participation Award!
Ray De Grussa is a disabled person in his late 40s with significant physical, communication and literacy impairments.
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Crossing Into Yesterday
Crossing Into Yesterday is a cross-arts, participatory initiative striving to inspire SEND and primary school pupils and teaching staff to connect with the borough’s history and heritage, culminating in a performance at Rich Mix in May 2012.
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Reactive, proactive and interactive: why Sounds of Intent is a framework for success
Assessing the musical development of children with complex needs has long been a fairly unexplored area of education in this country. In special schools in particular it is common for music to be taught by non-specialists who lack the confidence, planning time and resources to bring out the potential in their students.
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Ramp It Up! Lisburne School, Stockport
Ramp It Up! is Real Accessible Musical Participation for disabled children and young people in school.
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Time (The Revelator)
Last November, Drake Music invited disabled young people and musicians, their parents/ carers and also all those involved in music education to complete an online consultation about barriers to formal music education in England.